Liverpool has won the Premier League title and that means a decision on Trent Alexander-Arnold’s future is edging closer. By the end of the season, in four games’ time, we should know one way or another what is happening with the number 66.
Real Madrid, of course, has long courted his services. Nothing is signed yet, though, and that means Liverpool fans will have to wait a little longer for the official confirmation.
Assuming that Conor Bradley’s knock is not serious, it will be interesting to see how Arne Slot uses Alexander-Arnold in the remaining fixtures left to play this year. And beyond that, he might have to buy a replacement — or at least another body to come in and help out at full-back from time to time.
“It will be a difficult decision for him,” Paul Scholes told TNT Sports. “When you’re a local lad, it’s very hard to leave your club, especially when you’ve just won the Premier League.
“He’s with a big club at Liverpool, and if you’re not at a big club, it’s easy to make that move to Real Madrid. The thing he has to bear in mind is where is he more likely to win trophies for the next few years?
“I suppose Real Madrid have had a little bit of a slump, but their slumps don’t seem to last that long. There’s definitely more competition in England with Liverpool.
“In an attempt to win the Premier League and Champions League, you’ll compete with Man City, Arsenal, and even Chelsea might spend big again. It’s more difficult to win here.
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“Do Liverpool look like a team that can go on and win the league for the next five or six years? I don’t think so yet, and I might be proven wrong, but when City won the league, you thought, yeah, they’ll win it again.
“But with Liverpool, you’re just not quite sure, and football is all about winning trophies. So, for Trent, it’s where he thinks he’ll win the most trophies, and you’d probably slightly favor Real Madrid, purely because of their history in the Champions League and not that much competition in the league apart from Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.”
Liverpool.com says: The question isn’t really about the volume of trophies but what means more to Alexander-Arnold. Would winning La Liga be better than winning a third Premier League title with his boyhood club? Would going all the way with Real Madrid in the Champions League be better than one day captaining the Reds to European glory? Those are the real questions.
