ah yes the old “I’m taking their money and legitimising them so I can drive change” routineJordan Henderson | New Athletic Interview: I strongly believe that me playing in Saudi Arabia is a positive thing
- Thread starter Adisa
- Start date
ah yes the old “I’m taking their money and legitimising them so I can drive change” routineUp there with the Prince Andrew "I can't sweat" Interview as one of the worst interviews of all time.
He genuinely seemed to think it was a good thing that no one had told him to be quiet about his views, despite repeatedly acknowledging that he basically couldn't voice them. Jordan, they've bought your silence and compliance.
You can almost hear David Brent uttering those words.
I mean a lot of the general public are pretty thick. Look at who they vote in every election.
What a martyr he is. My people thank him for his service.
"I don't wear the armband so they turn around and go, 'Thank you, Jordan, for your help. Thank you for your support.' I do it so, one day, someone will go, 'There goes Jordan Henderson. I must remember to thank him.'"
Self righteous prick. If he wanted to be held up as a paragon of virtue, he should have gone back to Sunderland and helped them to the PL.
But he didn't. For one reason....
But he didn't. For one reason....
He's worn the laces and the armband.... what more can he do?
He literally gone above the ground (laces) and beyond (armband). And now he’s gone beyond the beyond and wears a board in front of the head.
Username checks out
Even without reading/watching his interview of course it is a positive thing for him. He is already 33, playing in a less physical and demanding league, and making a lot more money. It is the same for CR7, Benzema, Firmino, Mahrez, Neymar, Mane, Kante.
He's transcended any notion of good and bad and is now this massively rich cnut with a board on his face.
Sounds ungrateful for all Liverpool and Klopp has done for him. An average player where the Liverpool/Klopp system of play brought out the best in him and covered his limitations. If it wasn't for them it would likely be championship club and big deduction in wages for him in his mid 30s than a Saudi is a big money move but it isn't about the money? yeah right Jordan.
That was a bad each, should've just kept his mouth shut.
I find it amazing how people say "don't say anything if you're going to turn back if money is throw at you"
First of all, I don't know how you guys' brains work, but, when questioned about my opinion on some subject, I just say what I believe about it, and not stop to think: "Well, if Saudis tried to give me a job paying 10x what I make, even if it were just to exercise my profession, would I reject because of my beliefs? I'm not sure, so I gonna be silent."
Second: as I said, it sounds like they're only looking for martyrs. People can have different levels of commitment without necessarily being a hypocrite for that.
First of all, I don't know how you guys' brains work, but, when questioned about my opinion on some subject, I just say what I believe about it, and not stop to think: "Well, if Saudis tried to give me a job paying 10x what I make, even if it were just to exercise my profession, would I reject because of my beliefs? I'm not sure, so I gonna be silent."
Second: as I said, it sounds like they're only looking for martyrs. People can have different levels of commitment without necessarily being a hypocrite for that.
Last edited:
LGBT advocates arent fecking martyrs if they turn down the money to get paid by a regime that criminalise people for being homosexual and it some instances kill them for it. Its hardly like Pl stars are lacking for money. Would Henderson be changing the world anyhow? No. Is he a massive hypocrite yes. And it goes to show how vacuous footballers virtue signalling is. Harry kane wouldn't wear the armband for the fear of a yellow at the wc. Footballers are vacuous atrocious activists, the only who has tangibly done anything substantial is Rashford.
One of the best quotes on that.
we shouldn't idolize footballers as it's a recipe for disaster
Don’t understand why the Saudis are signing Average players like Henderson and offering them like 700k a week. He’s obviously gonna run over there otherwise he would be in a league below on halve the wages he was currently on. Alls it means now though is players that move over there are probably stuck there for the rest of their careers unless they take massive pay cuts to come back to Europe.
Is his gait still causing him problems
Part of a massive plan by the House of Saud to silence footballers who put on rainbow laces.
What an absolute cretin Henderson is.
Expensive, but effective
Maybe. But they can't take the money, shut up and claim to be an agent of change.
The more you listen to it, the more Brent esque it is.
If any Saudi company in your field offered you 700k a week to up sticks, move to Saudi and work there, you'd all go. All of you.
No we wouldn't.
The thing about this is posters on the caf aren't multi millionaires and aren't on 190k/week contracts.
You'd go.
It was 350k and no.
When people make these kinds of posts, they think they are making a point about hypocrisy and morality or something like that.
In reality, all they convey is that they're desperate for someone to give them money.
How can you not see the difference? Henderson already made more in a week than most people made in a year, he was already in a position to be financially stable for the rest of his life yet he decided to bin his morals for money.
Don’t act like he was on the breadline before getting this mega contract in Saudi, he was on £140,000 a week.
The set-up is entirely unfair. Of course most common folk would go if they'd get enough money in a year to retire early and still be set up for a life of luxury as opposed to working 9-5 for another few decades and still earn a tiny fraction of that money overall.
The thing is though, players like Henderson are already set up for a life of luxury having earned tens of millions of pounds in their career already. If they're not dumb as a rock and waste all the money on stupid shit then their children and their children's children won't have to work a day in their lives either unless they choose to. The only thing going to Saudi-Arabia will change for people like Henderson is now they can continuously spend money on unnecessary stupid shite and still be set for generations but is that really worth selling your integrity for?
Whether he has a net worth of £30M or £80M matters feck all for the quality of his life so he could easily afford to make a moral stand and would get righly applauded for it if he did. A regular guy struggling from paycheck to paycheck in a dead-end job might think differently if given the choice and that's fair enough.
To make the analogy work for 'normal' people: if I was offered 700k a week to work in Saudi Arabia, I'd consider doing it ... for a week.
Actually, I agree. It's a terrible place. Buddy happy to take the shilling in the car industry worked there 8 years and his endless anecdotes are unrepeatable on here because the hard truth of them would eventually just draw out accusations of racism. The Henderson situation sickens me because he dies on the cross of the giant shibboleth of the day, LGBTQ ideology. The country is a bassackwards shithole for a thousand reasons even leading up to that. But so many of the fan base seem cool with dough from their ideological brethren.
Not if I had the kind of money Henderson already has in the bank, could expect to earn well where I already was and going there meant a significant lowering of my level of ambition in my career, no.