On-loan Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Dean Henderson believes Manchester United’s therapy of him final season was “criminal”.
The 25-year-old, who has joined the newly-promoted facet for his or her first top-flight marketing campaign since 1999, claims 12 months in the past he was informed by the Old Trafford hierarchy he could be first-choice for final season.
However, when damage curtailed his Euro 2020 involvement with England and lengthy Covid delayed his availability for the brand new marketing campaign David De Gea retained his place as United’s primary.
As a end result Henderson performed simply thrice in three completely different competitions and that left him annoyed.
“To be honest, it has probably been the toughest 12 months of my career,” he informed talkSPORT.
“The conversation I had coming out of the Euros squad was ‘You’re coming back here to be the number one’.
“I got Covid-19, came back, so I should have still been the number one but then nobody followed through with what they had told me.
“It was frustrating, because I turned down so many good loans last summer for that reason, and they would not let me go.
“To sit there for 12 months, it is criminal really, at my age, I was fuming.
“I told the hierarchy that I need to be playing football and to let me go, and I was almost gone before the manager (Erik ten Hag) came through the door. I have not spoken to him since.
“I worked hard on and off the pitch to keep improving, day-in-day-out, and now I am looking forward to the season with Nottingham Forest.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk