Liverpool are understood to have rejected what Sky Sports activities termed an ‘method’ from Spanish champions Actual Madrid for Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The England worldwide’s present contract stays set to run out in the summertime of 2025 – together with that of Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah.
It’s price emphasising that the latter two gamers’ respective conditions would seem extra simple with regard to potential extensions, judging by the continued noise across the membership.
The No.66, nonetheless, stays a considerably extra difficult case given Los Blancos’ clear curiosity in his companies.
Actual Madrid transfer suggests switch confidence
The lure of the Spanish capital and Europe’s premier outfit shall be all too acquainted to former Purple Michael Owen who beforehand traded life at Anfield for the Bernabeu again in 2004.
Talking on X on Tuesday night, the Englishman remarked that an method from Madrid prompt ‘it’s solely a matter of time’ till a switch is sealed.
The actual fact that Actual Madrid have now made their intentions clear in direction of signing Trent Alexander Arnold leads me to imagine that it’s solely a matter of time earlier than he indicators for them. If he was going to signal a contract extension, Madrid wouldn’t have formally made their transfer.…
— Michael Owen (@themichaelowen) December 31, 2024
We’d humbly counsel that’s not essentially the case, and we wouldn’t put it previous Carlo Ancelotti’s outfit to look to unsettle the Premier League-toppers in a bid to push Alexander-Arnold to leap ship.
When will we all know for positive?
The Athletic’s David Ornstein has already supplied some much-needed readability right here: “Within the month of January, we should always see some motion, a decision of kinds, as a result of he’ll need this to get sorted sooner moderately than later.”
Oh, certainly.
It stays actually outstanding that we’ve managed to stay completely targeted on our goal of lifting silverware this time period even if three of the largest contracts in Liverpool’s historical past stay but to be sorted.
We strongly suspect the membership will handle to conclude at the very least two of those talks in a constructive trend, so far as these of a crimson persuasion are involved.
Nonethless, it will stay a terrific tragedy to see presumably probably the most competent passer of the ball in world soccer succumb to the attract of life with the 15-time Champions League winners.
It could be fairly a disgrace to see Trent Alexander-Arnold throw away a assured legacy at L4 in favour of the chance of particular person glory in Madrid.
But it surely’s his name to make.
