Former Manchester United player suggests a rift between Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and Jordan Henderson
Jurgen Klopp and Jordan Henderson are two people who have contributed a lot to Liverpool and the club’s success over the last few years. Under the pair, the club has touched soaring heights including a Premier League win in the 2019-20 season and three UEFA Champions League final appearances.
This season, Liverpool have not been at their best and the midfield could be one of the reasons. Players including Hendo have not particularly been at their best, which could be frustrating at times for the gaffer and Jurgen Klopp understandably would want to rotate the squad.
However, former Manchester United player Paul Scholes suggests that the captain is someone who should play more often than not, and believes that it is an injury which is making Klopp bench Hendo or there is a rift between the pair.
Here is what Scholes told Premier League Production via the Evening Standard in an interview:
“He is the leader of the team. He’s the captain and the one, the Casemiro type of role, and he gets everyone ticking around. He seems to have fallen out with him or carrying an injury. There is something not quite right there.”
Klopp and Henderson
For as long as the pair have been working together in tandem, there have been far worse situations the club has been in. A rift between the pair is the last thing Liverpool fans should be nervy about.
It was the German manager who played a ‘pivotal role‘ in Henderson signing a new contract at Anfield in the summer of 2021. Unless something has changed since then behind the scenes, there is no reason to think that Klopp and Hendo are not looking eye-to-eye.
Hendo had been out with injury for quite a while earlier in the season with a hamstring issue. With Klopp playing a different formation in the game prior to the defeat against Nottingham Forest against West Ham, the German would want to change things as well.
The skipper and the gaffer have shared a healthy relationship, at least in public, and a rift would be the least of things the club would want between two of the most important figures at the club. Hopefully, Liverpool get back to form as soon as possible and silence all the outside noise once and for all.
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Liverpool play Ajax in their UEFA Champions League group-stage fixture at Amsterdam next. The only away win the Reds have had this season has come against Glasgow Rangers. God willing, the Reds fly back from Amsterdam victorious in their game to change that stat.
