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Simon Jordan says Jordan Henderson is ‘ridiculous’ to suggest he’s moved to Saudi Arabia for anything other than the money.
The talkSPORT pundit also pulled no punches on Henderson’s claim that his move is a ‘positive thing’ in response to the backlash from LGBTQ groups, with Jordan slamming suggestions sports stars can change the county’s culture as ‘a load of old rubbish’.
“It’s ridiculous for him to say that he hasn’t gone to Saudi predominantly for the money,” said the White and Jordan host on air this morning.
“I don’t care if he has gone there for the money or not, but the bottom-line is that’s what he’s gone there for.
“In the same way Phil Mickleson started playing on the LIV Golf tour for the money and then started to give us a load of old pony about diversity and inclusion and bringing forward a society that was in certain ways not where it needed to be.
“I don’t blame Jordan Henderson for going there for an inordinate amount of money for the age he is, and at this stage of his career if someone is foolhardy enough to pay him whatever the money it is he’s getting at his age, then that’s on them.
“He was the one that people attributed a lot of noise around his support of certain communities, and I’ve no issue with his support of those communities if he wants to follow through that support…
“I’m sure he does care but is he not prepared to suffer the consequences? What’s more meaningful, actions or words? Words are easy, so the action would have been, ‘I don’t agree with this society, I’m not going to condone
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