‘To waste 12 months was CRIMINAL’ – Fuming Man Utd keeper Dean Henderson blasts club for breaking No 1 promise

DEAN HENDERSON fumed at “criminal” Manchester United for wasting a year of his career with false promises of the No 1 spot.

The England keeper, who joined Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan last month, revealed in an explosive rant he was furious with the Red Devils for their treatment of him after turning down offers.

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Henderson, 25, says he was promised the No 1 role ahead of David de Gea by ex-United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last summer — but played just THREE games. 

Hendo blasted: “I turned so many good loans down last summer for that reason  and they wouldn’t let me go.

“To  waste 12 months was criminal really, at my age. I was fuming. It was so frustrating.”

Henderson missed Euro 2020 last summer with a hip injury and then caught Covid to force him to miss the first three games of the season, leaving him on the bench as back-up to De Gea for most of the campaign.

And Henderson admitted he  had no interest in  talking to new United manager Erik ten Hag before joining Forest.

He said: “I didn’t really want the manager to   see me in training because I knew he’d probably want to keep me. 

“I told all the hierarchy: ‘I need to go and play football. I don’t want to be  playing second fiddle’.

“And it panned out so I was almost gone before the manager came in.”

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Henderson’s stinging attack was directed at both Solskjaer — who was sacked last November — and United.

He told talkSPORT: “The conversation I had, coming out of the Euros squad, was ‘you’re coming back to be  No 1 keeper’. 

“Unfortunately, no one followed through with anything they told me.”