🚨 Moises Caicedo on playing alongside Jordan Henderson: “Jordan has made my job easier, which is funny because I thought I was supposed to be doing the running for him. When he arrived, I asked him, ‘Jordan, how do you still have so much energy?’ He said, ‘Moises, I’ve been running around football pitches since before you were in secondary school. I’m not stopping because I’ve come to Chelsea.’ I laughed. Now I understand. Sometimes I turn around looking for him because I think he’s behind me. He’s already across the pitch telling somebody where to stand. Then we lose the ball, and somehow he’s beside me again. Against Everton, I told him, ‘Jordan, you know you can let me do some of the running?’ He said, ‘Then stop giving them the ball. We won’t have to run so much.’ What could I say? You can see the talk about the distance he covers. 13 kilometres against Everton, more than anybody on the pitch. Over 24 kilometres across two matches. At 36, that’s incredible. But what impresses me is that he knows exactly where to run. Sometimes I’m about to press someone and I hear him shout, ‘Wait, Moises. Not yet.’ Then the pass goes exactly where he said it would. You begin to trust that voice. He speaks to everybody. Defenders, midfielders, forwards. If you make a mistake, he tells you. If you do something good, he tells you that too. During one of our first training sessions, he stopped to explain something to a younger player. Afterwards I said, ‘Jordan, you know you’re not the manager?’ He said, ‘I know. That’s why I’m explaining it now, before the manager starts shouting at both of us.’ That’s Jordan. Against Everton, we were still at 0–0 at half-time. He kept telling us not to force things. ‘Keep playing. The chances will come.’ And they did. I’ve seen Chelsea fans compare his arrival to Thiago Silva. I understand it. They’re different players, but it’s the calmness. You feel someone has seen everything before, so you don’t have to panic. Someone told me fans already want him to wear the captain’s armband. I mentioned it to him. ‘Jordan, I think they’re going to make you captain soon.’ He laughed. ‘Moises, I’ve only just arrived. Let me find my way around the training ground first.’ That’s why I like him. He respects our captain and everyone already here. He isn’t trying to take anybody’s place. And believe me, he doesn’t need an armband to tell me I’m out of position. When Chelsea signed him, people looked at his age and wondered what he could still offer. Now he’s outrunning everybody, organising the midfield and making the players around him better. After the Everton match, I told him, ‘Keep this up and people will start asking whether you’re really 36.’ He said, ‘They can ask whatever they want. Just make sure you’re running with me.’ That’s what makes him special. He hasn’t come here expecting the younger players to carry him. He’s making us work harder to keep up with him.”