Dean Henderson’s little ego trip about his treatment at Man Utd got us agreeing with Danny Mills. Congratulations, young man.
The England international burst into our consciousness during two impressive years on loan at Sheffield United with that spell persuading Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to give him a go in the Man Utd first team.
An injury to David de Gea towards the end of the 2020-21 campaign meant Henderson got his chance to cement his place as United’s number one.
Does nobody think Erik Ten Hag’s new Manchester United will finish in the top four?
And it looked like he had done it, before a bout of Covid in pre-season last summer handed the jersey back to the Spaniard, who never looked back.
Poor old Henderson has ended up joining newly-promoted (and former European champions) Nottingham Forest on loan until the end of the season.
In a nauseating interview yesterday, Henderson kicked off at his treatment under Solskjaer and then interim boss Ralf Rangnick.
“I turned so many good loans down last summer for that reason [being told he would be No 1], and they wouldn’t let me go,” Henderson told talkSPORT.
“It was frustrating. To sit there and waste 12 months is criminal really, at my age. I was fuming. I tried to join Forest all before [Erik Ten Hag joined] — I told the hierarchy I need to play football. I don’t want to be here playing second fiddle. I was almost gone before the manager came in and I haven’t spoke to him since.”
Henderson added: “I didn’t really want the manager to see me in training because I knew he’d probably want to keep me.
“I told all the hierarchy: ‘I need to go and play football. I don’t want to be playing second fiddle’. And it panned out so I was almost gone before the manager came in.”
Probably want to keep me?! Sensational arrogance from Hendo that has us agreeing with every word Mills has to say on the subject.
Speaking on talkSPORT, Mills responded to Henderson’s comments: “Boo hoo, woe is me. Welcome to the real world of football Dean. This is what happens in football.
“David de Gea, didn’t he get Player of the Season? Therefore you were rightly number two behind him. No one ever gets promised ‘You are going to be No 1 all season long’, it’s impossible, doesn’t happen.
“You may start that way, but he got Covid. He was out of the team, David de Gea came in, played well, he stays in. That’s what happens in football, players get injured, they get ill, someone else…
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