After a 20-year affiliation with the well-known English facet, Alexander-Arnold will exit the membership on the finish of the season in the hunt for a brand new problem.
Trent Alexander-Arnold has introduced he’ll go away Liverpool on the finish of the season after 20 years on the membership, with the England proper again broadly anticipated to affix Actual Madrid.
Alexander-Arnold, who has simply clinched a second Premier League title with Liverpool, didn’t point out his subsequent vacation spot when confirming his departure from Anfield on his social media accounts on Monday.
He stated it was “simply the toughest choice I’ve ever made in my life”.
“This membership has been my entire life – my entire world – for 20 years,” the 26-year-old Alexander-Arnold wrote. “From the academy proper by way of till now, the assist and love I’ve felt from everybody inside and outdoors of the membership will stick with me endlessly. I’ll endlessly be in debt to you all.
“However, I’ve by no means recognized the rest and this choice is about experiencing a brand new problem, taking myself out of my consolation zone and pushing myself each professionally and personally. I’ve given my all each single day I’ve been at this membership, and I hope you are feeling like I’ve given again to you throughout my time right here.”
Whereas Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have just lately signed new two-year offers with Liverpool, there was lingering uncertainty over the way forward for Alexander-Arnold, who was additionally out of contract on the finish of this season.
“I do know lots of you may have puzzled why or been annoyed that I haven’t spoken about this but,” he wrote, “but it surely was all the time my intention to maintain my full give attention to the workforce’s greatest pursuits, which was securing [league title] No. 20.”
Alexander-Arnold has received each main honour with the Merseyside membership, together with the Premier League in 2020 and once more this yr, in addition to the Champions League in 2019.
He was key to revolutionising the function of a proper again, with Alexander-Arnold having been Liverpool’s most inventive participant at instances together with his marauding runs down the best and his capacity to return infield and pick passes to the workforce’s attackers.
“From the underside of my coronary heart, I thank all people – my coaches, my managers, my teammates, the workers and our unimaginable supporters – for the final 20 years,” Alexander-Arnold wrote.
“I’ve been blessed sufficient to stay out my goals right here and I’ll by no means, ever take without any consideration the particular moments I’ve been lucky sufficient to have lived by way of with you all. My love for this membership won’t ever die.”
If he does go to Madrid, it might be on a free switch, and he would comply with within the footsteps of the likes of Steve McManaman, Michael Owen and Xabi Alonso in swapping Anfield for the Santiago Bernabeu. That may imply him becoming a member of his England teammate Jude Bellingham in Madrid.
