Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson will appreciate the biggest match of his career to date all the more knowing the roller coaster he has been on to get there.
The England international will lead out Jurgen Klopp's side against Roma in their Champions League semi-final first leg at Anfield on Tuesday evening.
And it is a measure of how far his career has come considering just a year into his spell at the club he was told by then manager Brendan Rodgers he was to be sold to Fulham as part of a failed deal to bring in forward Clint Dempsey.