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Jordan Henderson has terminated his contract at Ajax with golf equipment within the Premier League , after declining an choice to increase his keep for an additional 12 months.
Henderson may make his return to the Premier League this summer season after two seasons away, having triggered an exit from his contract at Ajax.
The previous Liverpool captain agreed an preliminary 18-month cope with the Dutch aspect in January 2024 after a quick and controversial spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Ettifaq.
That contract included an choice to increase for an additional 12 months to 2026, however the Instances‘ Paul Joyce reviews that he has not taken up that chance.
As a substitute, Henderson will change into a free agent and is attracting curiosity from the Premier League and elsewhere in Europe.
It’s defined that “he’s eager to go to the World Cup subsequent summer season and want to be part of a membership who supply him a platform to take action.”
This comes having been given an olive department by new England head coach Thomas Tuchel, who has included him in each of his squads up to now after Henderson was overlooked by Gareth Southgate for everything of 2024.
The golf equipment within the 35-year-old are as but unnamed, and he “plans to attend earlier than publicly confirming his subsequent transfer out of respect for his former Liverpool team-mate Diogo Jota.”
Henderson travelled to Gondomar to attend the funeral for Jota and his brother Andre Silva final week and was additionally on Merseyside to pay tribute on the striker’s memorial exterior Anfield.
An apparent route again to the Premier League may include newly promoted Sunderland, Henderson’s boyhood membership, having come by means of the academy ranks to ascertain himself within the first workforce on the Stadium of Mild.
He left Sunderland for Liverpool in a £20 million deal in 2011 and spent over a decade with the Reds, inheriting the captain’s armband from Steven Gerrard and turning into the primary to carry the Premier League trophy at Anfield.
His departure from Anfield in 2023 got here below a cloud however it was actually the correct time for Henderson to depart on a sporting foundation.
Liverpool’s midfield has undergone a metamorphosis since Henderson, Fabinho, James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all left in the identical switch window.
Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai and Wataru Endo had been introduced in as speedy replacements whereas Curtis Jones has loved an elevated function and, this summer season, the membership have damaged their switch report to signal Florian Wirtz.
