Local Lad Trent Alexander-Arnold has announced that this season will be his last in the red of Liverpool, because his contract is coming to an end, the club where he joined the tender age of six
Trent Alexander-Arnold will say goodbye to Anfield when this season is coming to an end, so that the curtain brings Liverpool to a trophy livered term of office. The midfielder, born in West Derby, was hit for the first time the colors of his local red when they arrived at their academy at the age of six and quickly rose due to the youth of the club, which was declared at a series of levels.
His senior debut came under the manager in 2016 who transformed him into one of the world's best full-backs, Jurgen Klopp, and the rest is history. A Champions League trophy, two Premier League titles and a trio of Interior Cups later, and the 26-year-old announced that this campaign will be his last on Merseyside with his contract to walk down, leaving his holy legacy for meadows new for a free transfer.
Mirror Football takes a look at some of the decisions and comments that led to the scouser in the departure of the team, including the Captainincy allowance of Alexander-Arnold, his original attitude when leaving his childhood red and the specific reasoning behind his exit.
A captain dream
Alexander-Arnold was appointed skipper during his time in Liverpool's Academy Cohort, and made it clear that Captain Van de Reds was a lifelong goal at senior level.
Speaking in 2024 he admitted: “I always said that I want to request the club. That is a goal of mine, whether that happens from my hands. I want to become a Liverpool player this season [as a minimum] Is what I will say. “
During his emerging years, Jordan Henderson held the bracelet – a role that the midfielder had picked up in 2015 by the legendary Steven Gerrard. But when Henderson left in 2023, it was not Alexander -Arnold who got the honor, but instead the senior Virgil van Dijk van Dijk -another whose liverpool -Completion in the Air Penned a New Year Penned a New Year's extension in April.
Because Van Dijk is probably a captain until his contract ends, Alexander-Arnold would have to wait, and now the star announced as a vice-captain will bring his talents elsewhere in 2023.
A club U-turn
It was not always a certainty that Alexander-Arnold would let his youth come Liverpool at the end of the Arne Slot debut campaign, and in 2018 he insisted that he could never see himself wearing another shirt.
“There is nowhere else that I would rather be than Liverpool. Somewhere I am Liverpool for the rest of my career,” he told The Times seven years ago.
“It is what I have always dreamed of. Liverpool is special. It's all the way up the fans. Whether we win or lose, we always have their love.”
Unfortunately, seven years is a long time, and during those trophy-rich terms it seems as if the desire for a new challenge elsewhere is outweighing an email for children.
Announced exit
When it became clear that the defender was until the last year of his deal, Speculation swung around him, Van Dijk and Talismian attacker Mohamed Salah about where they would play their football next season.
In particular, speculation that connects Alexander-Arnold with a move to Real Madrid and Close Peer Jude Bellingham was appropriate. Although both teammates have written new deals since then, the Englishman will not be his reasoning to leave as a new challenge and push his limits.
He said to the club: “I think in the first place, I want to say that it is not an easy decision and there is a lot of thought and feeling that it went into it. I have been here for 20 years, loved every minute, achieved all my dreams, reached everything I ever wanted here.
“Everything day in, day out, for 20 years, I now have the feeling that I need a change, a new challenge for me as a player and as a person. And I think it is now the right time for me to do that.
“It just came down to what I felt that I needed, and that is a change. That is something that I have to do on my personal journey as a person, but also as a player and a professional, to challenge myself somewhere else. I feel a challenge in a different environment is something I have to do as a player.”