7 Most DISASTROUS Career Moves of All Time

In light of Jordan Henderson leaving Liverpool to join Al-Ettifaq, torching his own reputation and being dropped from England's Euro 2024 squad in the process, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of transfers which ruined footballer's careers.

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[virtual]

After you jinxed Leverkusen, I’m expecting Henderson to now get a sudden England call up and score the Euro winning goal.

[mrmr]

To be fair if Henderson just came out and said "I'm going for the money" more people probably would have given him credit for being honest, it's the fact he doubled down on his virtue signalling

[RS-zpwe]

7 players who are legends in their own country, but unknown abroad.

Example: Willem van Hanegem is often ranked above Gullit, Van Basten and Bergkamp in the Netherlands, but pretty unknown abroad.

[beno]

Alfie: Without further...
Me: Yes?
Alfie: hesitation
Me: Which footballer is named Hesi Tation?

[rcollingridge]

The ongoing Henderson slander is a highlight of this channel, I love it so much

[GRZZLEDSTYKA]

I used to be one of henderson's top supporters, I loved it when he lifted the premier league in 2020 but i really didnt know he such a bellend until he was revealed to be one.

[ThePaganAltar]

He resisted the Freddy Adu pun! He's perfect for this video.

[Yaro]

Me: waiting for without further Adu

Alfie: without further hesitation
😂

[adamdickinson]

Alfie rinsing Henderson is football heritage at this point

[GinkgoPete]

Making fun of Jordan Henderson might be easy, but he has done so much to make football popular everywhere.
Im german and me and my friends had never heard of football until the local news reported "Jordan Henderson will move to Saudi Arabia".
We asked ourselves "Why is he moving there?" and the research into that lead us to football, we then hosted a small 16 team tournament to celebrate his move to Saudi Arabia.
What was the tournament called? Bundesliga!

[islaymassive]

Leaving out the la Sala clips is a crime

[segafreak]

One transfer that always comes to mind for me that would fit this perfectly was Diego Ribas from Werder Bremen to Juventus in 2009. His career never quite recovered from that aside from a short stint in Spain for one season, which is tragic considering how brilliant he was during his Werder Bremen years...

[adamthompson]

Roysten Drethe, When he was playing for everton he was renting (yes renting not owning) a house owned by dutch liverpool winger Ryan Babble. My mate worked for a kitchen company and was hired to design a new kitchen for him... whilst there the entire basement was being ripped out and when my mate asked Roy about it, he said 'As im not aloud to party in public im building my own night club in the basement'.... So Im guessing Ryan Babble now has his own free nightclub in his Cheshire mansion... and guess what... no permanent transfer materialized and off back to real he went lol

[francolive]

Jack Rodwell and Scott Sinclair to Man City for me. Killed their careers.

[adamsminormovement]

To be fair I feel really sorry for Van De Beek. When he played for man utd it was often in the 80th minute which didn't help him much, he needed to start games.

[MartijnterHaar]

Some names that I can think of that weren't mentioned:
- Serhiy Rebrov to Tottenham
- Rinat Dasajev to Sevilla
- Afonso Alves to Middlesbrough

[NeroPiroman]

Miralem pjanić to Barcelona definetly should at least be an honorable mention,
He has been a shell of his former self ever since, playing in UAE league

[chrisguardiano]

As an American, a career move considered to be disastrous in the eyes of many MLS fans has to be German legend Lothar Matthaus's move to the NY/NJ Metrostars (known today as New York Red Bulls) in 2000. The American soccer media were hyping his signing as the biggest in league history at the time & were expecting him to have the same impact on MLS that Pele had on the NASL even though Matthaus was near the end of his career. However Matthaus only played in 16 games for the Metrostars scoring no goals & was known for vacationing in St. Tropez when he was supposed to be rehabbing his back. After the MLS season ended, he retired having made zero impact on the Metrostars. Another move considered to be disastrous when it comes to MLS is Freddie Ljungberg joining the Seattle Sounders in 2009 where he was given a designated player contract (meaning he would be paid more than the average player according to league rules) even though he had spent the majority of the 2 years after he left Arsenal injured. Ljungerg's time in Seattle was not good as he only scored two goals & spent most of the time injured. As a Sounders supporter, he is considered to be one of the worst signings we have ever had & this is the same club that revived the careers of Dijmi Traore, Obafemi Martins, Kasey Keller & Clint Dempsey.

[kshizzle_bizzle]

I'm gonna be real for a second, I'm just here for Alfie dunking on Henderson again.

[John]

Fernando Redondo to Ac Milan deserves a mention, suffering a knee injury and not playing for 2 and a half years