Every word of Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp's response to a question about former captain Jordan Henderson's interview with The Athletic
Jurgen Klopp has admitted that it was the right time for captain Jordan Henderson to leave Liverpool following private talks about the midfielder’s future this summer.
“Hendo said the truth, in all departments, that's how it was. We had our talks and I told Hendo I wanted him to stay but we had to talk in these conversations as well about the possibility of not playing regularly. I told him we bring in players and stuff like this. “Which means what happens if… Because Hendo is a fantastic player, I will love him forever, super guy, but he's not great when he's not playing, let me say it like that.
“Obviously [for] Hendo, in his ear and mind, that meant, 'okay, he doesn't want me here'. I understand it 100 per cent but we clarified that.
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