Footballer and LGBT+ ally leaves Saudi due to tax bill

[Justwrong68]

I laughed out loud when I heard this on the bbc this morning

www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/17/jordan-henderson-quits-al-ettifaq-fc-after-just-six-months/

“When I hear stuff like: ‘You’ve turned your back on us’, that hurts. I have family and friends in the LGBTQ+ community.”

"It's just that earning £ 350,000 a week means a lot more to me."

He's made a right tit of himself.

Of course it does. How many people would give up that kind of money for the sake of an LGBT armband?

Footballers have every right to maximise their income over the length of their careers, just like anyone else.

JH hasn't done anything wrong and had nothing to apologise for. He was supportive of the LGBT community, of the NHS, children with disabilities and supported anti bullying campaigns. People who have turned on him are bullies themselves, enjoying an opportunity to pile on and virtue signal. It's disgusting behaviour. And the result, no other footballer* has spoken out in support of LGBT rights because it's too risky now. Well done.

*Aaron Ramsdale is the only player to speak out in support of LGBT rights since JH went to Saudi. His brother is gay and that was his reason for showing public support now. When no one else will.

What are you on about? He was lauded for his support of the LGBTQ + community. It’s his rank hypocrisy that people are criticising.

Yeah,especially if they were as destitute as Mr Henderson eh?

JH hasn't done anything wrong and had nothing to apologise for. He was supportive of the LGBT community...

Right up until the point where it would have any impact on his personal choices rather than be an easy way to get brownie points. How admirable.

Still, I'm glad he's done the right thing now, even if it did take him a while to figure it out.

Supportive of the LGBT community .... until the Saudis offered him £350k per week to live in a country where LGBT is illegal, people are killed because they are LGBT and women have v few rights.

Greedy hypocrite.

The he has every right to maximise his income/ earn well for his family' argument doesn't wash with me - he's already extremely rich having been a professional footballer at the highest level since playing for the Sunderland snr team in 2008, I think he was earning around £180k a week at Liverpool. The man has plenty of money!

The same people criticising him for his Saudi move are the same people who hold up signs saying "Queers for Palestine" and their support for a country that throws LGBT+ people off of buildings.

LGBT+ people like Joe Lycett and Alex Scott were critical of the World Cup being in Qatar and demanding boycotts, until it was revealed that they happily worked in the country to earn money.

Essentially (and no one wants to admit it) it is about jealousy of earning all that money, and people take great pride in being able to bring someone else down.

The LGBT+ community think that they have ownership over allies and can basically control them, JKR has seen what happens, and now Jordan Henderson in being polite and friendly to LGBT+ has now seen how nasty they can be.

As someone else has said, all that it's meant is a drop in LGBT+ support from footballers because it's not worth the hassle.