Hendry is expected to be a key man for Scotland in the upcoming break and his move to Saudi won't affect that.
The 28-year-old defender secured a life-changing £6.5million move to Steven Gerrard’s Al Ettifaq this summer. In the Saudi Pro League, Hendry will come up against superstar strikers like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Aleksandar Mitrovic, who have all gone to the Middle East. But Clarke has revealed the former Celtic centre-back consulted him before agreeing on the deal.
Clarke will lead Scotland into a massive double-header that starts with a crucial qualifier against Cyprus before a Hampden friendly with England to mark the 150th anniversary of association football. It comes four years on from a 2-1 victory over the Cypriots at the dawn of the Clarke era. But, even when times were tough back when he took over, Clarke saw glimmers of hope.
Clarke said: “We’ve continued to improve from then and that was always the aim. It was never going to be a quick process because it’s “We have a lot of good players now. We also have a lot of good players I haven’t selected, which is important. That Cyprus game in 2019 was tough, we weren’t in a great moment. It was a campaign where we’d been hammered in Belgium and Russia.
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