Manchester United's England international Dean Henderson has made it clear to manager Ralph Lonnick to leave the squad in the January winter window. As a result, he was also not included in the team's FA Cup squad.
Originally, it was expected that Henderson could start and rotate De Gea in the third round of the FA Cup at home to Aston Villa. However, the 24-year-old Britain goal did not even make the match list, with De Gea starting and Tom Heaton sitting on the bench.
Henderson had been unwell last week but had resumed training on Sunday, not because of an injury absence. This season, Henderson has suffered from serious injuries and covid-19 positive problems, and lost to De Gea in the main goalkeeper battle. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had promised to replace De Gea as the starter, but in the end the Spanish international made a strong comeback, starting and playing all 19 Premier League rounds to date, as well as five of the six Champions League group games.
In contrast, Henderson can only play in the final round of the League Cup and Champions League group stages. As a result, Henderson was disheartened and wanted to leave Manchester United, and the one who had been interested in him the most was Eredivisie giants Ajax, who had already expressed to Manchester United last November their intention to go on loan. However, Lonnick has been reluctant to let Go of Henderson, and he wants to keep the structure of the first team of 3 goalkeepers.
Henderson was very unhappy about this, and he had clearly told Manchester United interim manager Ronnick last month that he wanted to leave the team and at least rent out for exercise. Now, his agent is contacting the right team to make sure he can complete the transfer in the next 3 weeks and play in the new club to compete in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.
Lonnick's response was to abandon Henderson, and Anthony Martial, another player of Manchester United who has asked to leave the team, has lost the big list for 4 consecutive games, and he has also explicitly asked the club for a transfer. Manchester United rejected Sevilla's loan offer to pay only half of his salary, while Martial rejected Newcastle United's £30m offer, he only wanted to play in La Liga and was reluctant to join the relegation team.
Henderson's contract with Manchester United runs through 2025 with a weekly salary of up to £120,000, making him one of the Premier League's highest-paid substitute goalkeepers. Tottenham are also rumored to be watching his development at the Red Devils, with goalkeeper Hugo Lowry getting old and his contract expiring and Conte needing to bring in a new goalkeeper to take over. As early as Mourinho's time in charge, Spurs were interested in Henderson.
Coincidentally, another Manchester United youth-trained player, the agent of centre-back Tuan Zebi, also shelled Manchester United for mishandling after completing a £1 million transfer deal to Napoli on Serie A loan.
Tuanzebi and Henderson are both 24 years old, and his agent Fabrizio Ferreira pointed out that Manchester United do not treat young players as well as they are legendary, in fact, lack of strategies to improve training, affecting the progress of youngsters.
'Tuanzebi is not a full-back, he has fast legs, but he is also very strong and will be useful in Napoli. The agent said, "I think the decision United made in terms of the growth of young players is debatable. I don't think they have any strategies to improve their training, the way they manage player contracts is confusing, Tuanzebi is plagued by a change of manager."