KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Jordan Henderson called team meeting ahead of Liverpool win

Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana has credited captain Jordan Henderson for his side's return to winning ways.

Jurgen Klopp's had endured a poor run of form going into the match, and Lallana has revealed how Henderson gathered the squad together in a bid to unify the players.

Lallana said: "It was the team captain who got us together. He wanted it to happen.
"We knew as players we had to take responsibility. It was up to us to respond. The manager can say as much as he likes and tell us what he wants us to do and what attitude he wants us to have, but we have to do it.

"Credit to Jordan for calling the meeting, credit to everyone for participating and credit to everyone for performing. It wasn't just him who spoke, the senior players spoke, the non-senior players, everyone. It was good, and refreshing.

"As long as it is not personal, just purely professional, there is no harm reminding each other what we need and what we want from each other. It was very open and I came out of that meeting knowing that every one of those players is together and intent on turning things around. There was a sense of everyone coming together."

Having "A Coming to Jesus Meeting" after the fact only underlines what a dreadful Captain we have! A Captain should do the talking on the pitch and in the dressing room at half time if the team aren't performing.
The team needs a world class player who they can look up to and leads by example on and off the pitch...Henderson sadly, never has or never will be that player!

He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't in your eyes.

At the very worst calling a team meeting did no harm.

Doing it after the horse has bolted is futile!

Doing it after the horse has bolted is futile!
[/quote]

Well we won on Saturday and it seems the players took whatever was said onboard.

Yep, agree Shaggy. It would have done no harm what so ever but as you say, with some, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

Struggling to actually see a problem here tbh.

Me neither well done Jordan that's a captains job it's not just at the game but all the time training too.

To be fair to Henderson, he is particularly rubbish as captain but would anyone else in the squad do a better job?

I very much doubt it.

That is why we should have signed Joe Hart.

I am sure if someone else in the squad did it, Scouser's comment would be "the captain should've done that"