Mauricio Pochettino publicly responds to question about signing Jordan Henderson for Chelsea

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Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has cleared up whether he’s trying to sign former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson.

Six months after leaving Liverpool for Saudi Arabia, Henderson is reportedly angling for a move back to the Premier League.

With that in mind, Pochettino was surprisingly asked about potentially bringing the 33-year-old to Stamford Bridge this moth.

Speaking via Football London after Chelsea’s 4-0 FA Cup win over Preston North End yesterday, the Argentine didn’t necessarily rule out a move for Henderson.

“To be honest we didn’t talk about names,” Pochettino replied. “At the moment we are not talking about bringing players. I saw Behdad here in the manager’s room with Paul and Laurence. I think tomorrow we are going to have a chat because we will be in the training ground.

“We didn’t talk about names or talk about position, we didn’t talk to bring players. For now, we are focusing on players like Andrey Santos to see what we are going to do.”

Pochettino quizzed over Henderson move

This would be up there with one of the most bizarre transfers in the history of football.

Personally we think Henderson may well be trying to get himself a move back to Anfield this month. That in itself would be strange, but for the former Liverpool skipper to end up at Chelsea would be downright unbelievable.

Pochettino’s answer here didn’t categorically appear to rule out bringing Henderson to Stamford Bridge. However, it seems virtually impossible that it would be something he’s looking at.

Having been playing in a poor league in-front of tiny crowds for the past half-a-year, there should be serious questions over Henderson’s current standard.

There may be Premier League teams who would take him on, but Chelsea surely won’t be one of them.

Imagining for a second that this did happen though, and Henderson’s reputation at Liverpool would be lower than ever. He’s already not the most popular man in the world due to the way he left Anfield last summer.

But to join one of the Reds Premier League rivals would sink him to new levels. If there is potential there, then it will end up being a question of just how desperate Henderson is to get out of Saudi Arabia.

To see him playing for any other English club – barring Sunderland – will be strange anyway. But after the decision he made to move to the Middle East, nothing would surprise us from Jordan anymore.