TOM COLLOMOSSE: Jordan Henderson may feel a tinge of 悔いる as he watches Liverpool's chase for four トロフィーs from afar - he would have been a natural leader for Klopp's kids

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Jordan Henderson has spent this week trying to 陰謀（を企てる） the downfall of one 首相 League club when he should really be trying to 勝利，勝つ the thing with another.

The former England captain is 試みる／企てるing to 推進する Ajax, one of Europe’s 巨大（な）s, に向かって their 11th 大陸の 肩書を与える. 一方／合間 Liverpool, the club he left in an ill-advised switch to the Saudi プロの／賛成の League, are chasing four トロフィーs this season. They take on Aston 郊外住宅 for a place in the ４半期/4分の1-決勝戦 of the Europa 会議／協議会 League, with the first 脚 in Holland on Thursday.

公然と, Henderson would doubtless make all the 権利 noises about his career choices since last summer. Yet 個人として, h e would not be human if he did not have even a tinge of 悔いる when he looks at how Liverpool’s みごたえのある season is 広げるing.

When Henderson left Anfield to move to Al-Ettifaq last summer, it was not 単独で because of the £700,000 週刊誌 salary on 申し込む／申し出. The 33-year-old did not believe he would feature 定期的に in Jurgen Klopp’s reconfigured midfield this 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and did not want to finish his time on Merseyside as an also-ran.

Yet Liverpool have 苦しむd so many 傷害 problems this season that Henderson would surely have played his part. Think of the 最近の run of matches, when Klopp has used a number of 学院 製品s because of the absence of several first-teamers.

Jordan Henderson is 準備するing to 直面する old 首相 League 競争相手s Aston 郊外住宅 with his Ajax 味方する

The former Liverpool captain 調書をとる／予約するd a move to the Dutch club after an ill-運命／宿命d move to Saudi プロの／賛成の League 味方する Al-Ettifaq

Henderson may feel a tinge of 悔いる after having 選ぶd to (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進む a new path away from Anfield at the end of last season

What better player than Henderson, such a natural leader, to guide the youngsters through those games? And after Liverpool overcame Chelsea in the Carabao Cup?final in February, he would now have another メダル to 追加する to his collection.

By leaving Al-Ettifaq only six months and 17 games after joining, Henderson 認める he had made a 抱擁する error. Not even such fabulous 給料 could 補償する for the loss of 最高の，を越す-level football in Europe and Henderson took his first 大勝する out, cancelling his 契約 to 調印する a two-and-a-half-year を取り引きする Ajax. The prospect of 行方不明の out on?a place in Gareth Southgate’s England squad for this summer’s European 選手権 was also 目だつ in his thinking.

‘I've got 十分な 尊敬（する）・点 for the league and Al-Ettifaq the club and the people over there,’ said Henderson in January. ‘They really made me feel welcome. Unfortunately いつかs these things in life just don't work out, in football and life in general.

‘I'm in 接触する with Gareth 定期的に, as I have been for many years. That hasn't changed. He is like that with all the players.

‘You know how の近くに he is to the lads. I've always got the Euros and England in mind. It is a big thing playing for my country. That has been always been the 事例／患者 wherever I've played.

‘最終的に I've got to be doing my 職業 on the pitch for Ajax and then hopefully I'll be called up for England.’

Henderson （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the Carabao Cup at Wembley as the 船長／主将 just over two seasons ago?

Jurgen Klopp's 青年-infused 味方する won their first silverware of the season last month

Henderson has not 設立する life 平易な in the Eredivisie, even as Ajax 改善する on their dreadful start to the （選挙などの）運動をする. They 会合，会う 郊外住宅 fifth in the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する but their 2-0 勝利，勝つ over Utrecht on March 3 was Henderson’s first 勝利，勝つ in five 外見s for the club.

Henderson is a smart man and will understand his 役割 at Ajax. He was clever enough not to request his preferred No14 shirt when joining as that was the one worn by Johan Cruyff. As Ajax guide yet another 約束ing 世代 に向かって successful careers in the game, Henderson should be an ideal example f or them.

Rather than 実行するing this 役割 for Jorrel Hato, Devyne Rensch and Kenneth Taylor, however, Henderson could be doing the same for Conor Bradley, Bobby Clark and Jayden Danns. And however he might tell the story in Amsterdam with a microphone in 前線 of him, Henderson will surely have moments where he wonders what might have been.