Liverpool’s Premier League and Champions League-winning captain Jordan Henderson says he was in “a very dark place” when the club tried to sell him to Fulham in 2012.
The England midfielder was not always so highly rated at Anfield and then-manager Brendan Rodgers wanted to use him in a swap deal for Clint Dempsey.
Henderson turned the move down and eventually became a club hero on Merseyside, but things could have worked out very differently.
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“That was a difficult moment I remember very clearly,” Henderson said to the Guardian.