Liverpool vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold
Liverpool vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold
I’m pretty sure that it’s certain that Trent Alexander-Arnold is going to go to Real Madrid. That's certainly what it looks like. If he turned around and signs, I’d be delighted. But I’ve taken it as done in my mind.
Maybe Trent just fancies a change. Obviously the financial incentives will be absolutely ridiculous, but he’s going to be a rich lad if he stays at Liverpool for the rest of his career. It’s a personal thing. It’s just a personal thing. If he does go, we’ll all be sad. Of course we will be.
He’s a great player with great attributes. And he’s achieved what he’s achieved with us. I’ll be gutted to be fair if he goes, but it’s his life. He’s free to live it the way he wants to live it.
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He’ll have been impressed by Arne Slot this season and get what he’s about, of course he does.
You’ve got to say though, he should have been tied down two years ago
We can’t knock the owners but I’m a dinosaur, and I think when contracts are coming to an end, in this day and age, since the Bosman ruling, you have to keep an eye on them all.
You have to give yourself two years in advance to renew them. Once it goes to one year, you’ve been backed into a corner. You’ve been cornered and only have yourselves to blame if they go.
It’s a game of cards. The longer it goes on, the better their hand gets and the poorer your hand gets. It’s poker and you end up losing. That’s the way I see it.
I’m a boyhood Liverpool fan. I would have played for them my whole career if I could. I wanted to stay, but Kenny Dalglish said he was going to go with Ian Rush and Peter Beardsley and I wasn’t going to play basically.
That was the reason why I moved to Spain, to Real Sociedad. I loved Liverpool and I wanted a new contract. That’s the way I was.
I’m not saying Trent isn’t, but I’m a diehard Liverpool fan. I used to go to every home game. I used to go to away games on the special trains.
Liverpool was my life and my way of thinking was always to play for Liverpool one day. And then when that happened, it was to finish my career there. But it didn’t happen that way.
Trent has said similar in the past but life doesn’t always work out like that. If he does join Real Madrid, which I suspect, then good luck to him. But if he changed his mind and signed a new contract with Liverpool, I’d be delighted.