SAY IT AIN’T SO, HENDO
When Kenny Dalglish welcomed a 21-year-old Jordan Henderson to Liverpool from Sunderland for £16m a dozen years ago, an awful lot of people thought the then-Liverpool manager had lost his mind. This was back in the days when £16m was still considered a sizeable chunk of change, but Dalglish insisted he was paying for the player’s “huge potential” rather than anything significant he had achieved gadding around midfield at the Stadium of Light. “He is respectful and his principles and everything else on and off the pitch are exemplary,” said Kenny, whose words have since proved prophetic, at least until now.
