England midfielder Jordan Henderson joined Brentford on a free switch on Tuesday following his exit from Dutch facet Ajax.
Henderson agreed a two-year contract with the Bees as he returned to the Premier League after leaving Liverpool in 2023.
Brentford’s new supervisor Keith Andrews moved for the 35-year-old after dropping Denmark midfielder Christian Norgaard to Arsenal.
“After we turned conscious of Jordan’s availability, it was a reasonably easy determination,” Andrews mentioned.
“We did our due diligence round his latest video games to see the place he’s. He’s nonetheless phenomenally match and he’s nonetheless phenomenally motivated to realize issues within the recreation, having already achieved rather a lot.
“With the void of skilled gamers leaving the constructing – Christian Norgaard, Mark Flekken and Ben Mee – it was essential to switch that.
“What Jordan will deliver is that he has been one of the influential leaders in fashionable Premier League years. He’s been on the forefront of driving for titles and Champions Leagues at a improbable soccer membership.
“He additionally has expertise at worldwide degree with England and, with that, comes a degree of expertise, professionalism and dedication to his occupation – that’s the precise approach we wish to be as a soccer membership.”
Henderson has 84 England caps and was not too long ago recalled by Three Lions boss Thomas Tuchel.
He spent 12 years with Liverpool, successful the Champions League in 2019 and the Premier League in 2020 amongst quite a few different trophies, earlier than a profitable transfer to Saudi Arabian membership Al-Ettifaq two years in the past.
Henderson was accused of placing cash above ideas, having beforehand spoken out in help of the LGBTQ group.
His contract with Al-Ettifaq was cancelled simply six months later.
Henderson subsequently joined Ajax, incomes the captaincy and making 57 appearances for the Dutch membership.
Nonetheless, Ajax’s late collapse value them the Eredivisie title final season and his contract was terminated final week with a yr nonetheless left to run.
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