Former Man City and Leeds United defender Danny Mills has slammed Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Dean Henderson for his comments about Manchester United.
Henderson said that the last 12 months were the "worst of my career" at Old Trafford and claimed he was made false promises about his future at the club. He even arranged his loan deal at Forest before new United boss Erik Ten Hag had a chance to get his feet through the door.
His comments have "really annoyed" Mills, who tore into Henderson and broke down why he was so worked up about what the Forest loanee had to say. "Boo hoo, woe is me. Welcome to the real world of football, Dean. This is what happens in football," Mills said on talkSPORT.
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"David De Gea, didn't he get player of the season? Therefore you were rightly number two behind him. No one ever gets promised 'you are going to be number one all season long'. It's impossible. Doesn't happen.
"You might start that way... but he got COVID. He was out of the team, David De Gea came in, played well, he stays in. That's what happens in football. Players get injured, they get ill, someone else gets their opportunity and you can't get back in. Tough. You have to deal with it. That's football."
Mills also picked up on the six-year deal Henderson signed at United, and rubbished suggestions from the goalkeeper that he turned down good loans last summer.
"He wasn't that bothered when he signed a six-year deal," Mills said. "It doesn't matter what you get told. There are so many things that really annoy me about those statements. 'I didn't even speak to the manager'. So if you think you're good enough to be number one, you think you're better than David De Gea, then speak to Erik Ten Hag and say 'I think I'm better than (De Gea), am I going to play? Do you think I've got a chance of playing?'
"Stay and fight for your place. If Ten Hag says no, then okay, you've got a decision to make.
"And then he goes on about (how) he turned down so many good loan deals, but Manchester United wouldn't let him go. In that case then, you didn't turn down a single thing. If Man United weren't prepared to let you go, there was never a loan deal on the table."
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