Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is prepared for the problem a midfield overhaul will convey subsequent season and is assured he and the workforce can rediscover the consistency which is able to enable them to shut the hole to Manchester City.
Midfield is the important thing space which wants a refresh this summer time and, with the membership confirming on Wednesday the departures of veteran James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – along with ahead Roberto Firmino – there shall be some new faces for the subsequent marketing campaign.
Henderson shall be 33 by then and coming into his thirteenth season on the membership however is relishing the competitors which he could face, with Liverpool excited about Brighton’s Argentinian World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister as one in every of their choices.
“I don’t think it’s a rebuild to be honest. I do think there will be new players coming in. A rebuild is changing an entire team – which I don’t think we will be doing,” Henderson, talking at NHS Charities Together occasion at a faculty in Crewe, instructed the PA information company.
“I think you have a lot of core players in the team that will still be there and are still in great shape to compete and be successful.
“But yes, it will need freshening up of course with players leaving and trying to improve the team.
“I am sure players will be coming in at some point to give us a boost and freshen things up a bit and hopefully put us in good position come the first game of the season.”
On what which means for him personally he added: “It’s all the time a problem, particularly at Liverpool, there’ll all the time be challenges for locations and to play video games.
“That’s the case ever since I got here to the membership. Come pre-season I’ll be prepared for the problem once more.
I’m certain gamers shall be coming in in some unspecified time in the future to provide us a lift and freshen issues up a bit
Jordan Henderson on potential summer time signings
“Motivation never changes really, it is always about improving and being better, individually and as a team.
“Always new challenges come along, different things will happen and you will have new challenges throughout the season.
“There is always a challenge in football to improve, to be better and that motivation always stayed the same to be successful.
“I’m confident we can reach the levels we are capable of again, definitely. We have shown that over the past six or seven games and it’s about continuing on that path from now until the end of the season and (next season) pick up where we left off hopefully.”
Henderson is an envoy for NHS Charities Together and was at Springfield School in Crewe, which caters for 4 to 19-year-olds with a variety of disabilities and studying difficulties, after they received a prize draw having been concerned within the annual NHS Big Tea fundraiser, which this 12 months takes place on the well being service’s seventy fifth anniversary on July 5.
The England worldwide, who spearheaded the GamersTogether initiative which inspired skilled footballers to donate to the NHS through the Covid-19 pandemic, has an affinity with the NHS after his father was handled for mouth and throat most cancers.
“My dad probably wouldn’t be here now if it wasn’t for the NHS staff, he’d say that himself,” added Henderson.
“I’ve got family members who work within the NHS and know how difficult it’s been, especially over the last few years with the pandemic.
“I’ve been doing work at different hospitals up and down the country as well and it’s been amazing to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and get to see some of the staff.”
