From Trent Alexander-Arnold is generally expected to add to Real Madrid this summer when his Liverpool contract ends, and Paul Scholes has emphasized that the full-back apparently wants to leave Anfield
The prospect that Trent Alexander-Arnold of Liverpool came to Real Madrid this summer at Real Madrid can play bad news on different fronts, and Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has emphasized a particularly disturbing implication behind the rumor move.
Alexander-Arnold, 26, probably seems to make the switch to the Bernabeu when his current deal with Liverpool is at the end of this season. Although the official confirmation has not yet come, its potential departure can also cause a Domino effect, with Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk also in the last few months of their contracts.
Reds -fans can find comfort in the chance that every player who says goodbye to the club will do this as a Premier League champion, where Liverpool comfortably leads the peloton for the nearest challengers Arsenal in the race for the title.
Nevertheless, Scholes has set an alarming reason why Alexander-Arnold might want to leave-a belief that Liverpool cannot retain their success in the future.
“I try to imagine as if it was one of our players who grew up,” he said on the overlap, brought to you by Sky Bet. “We were a dominant team. We felt for a long time as if we could continue and win competitions and challenge for European cups – probably not as well as we wanted.
“And I don't think someone would like to go. I really don't do that. If you now talk about the Manchester United team and someone came in, then yes, good luck, you deserve to go.
“I think Trent may look at Liverpool and think differently than they are a really good team – they are going to win the Premier League – it doesn't feel like it will be a dominant team for years.”
The boss of Reds Arne Slot will undoubtedly get everything out of the closet to destroy such ideas, but it is understandable why Scholes, who can have his boots on Old Trafford as a player with one club, could have such reservations.
With two more important players' contracts in the air, Liverpool can get significant gaps in their stars-lined line-up if Deals for Salah and Van Dijk are not expanded.
In the mystery, Scholes continued (via the Liverpool Echo): “It still feels like there are a few problems in Liverpool, of course with Trent, Van Dijk and Mo Salah. You still think there is work to do. I think that is the most important difference.
“And he goes to Real Madrid, and Real Madrid is going to win competitions, they will probably win European cups for the next 10 years. So I can understand that he wants to do it from that point of view.”
In the case of Alexander-Arnold, Slot has a ready-made replacement in Conor Bradley who has earned his own part of the spotlights. The same may not be said in the central defense or on the wing as Van Dijk and Salah pack and leave their own bags because of their interests in the team.
Slot has been conservative with transfers in his first summer and is probably preparing for an expenditure in the upcoming window. Yet replacing generation talents such as Van Dijk and Salah is far from guaranteed, and certainly not a quick solution.
Although a Premier League title in your debut campaign is nothing to sniff, Liverpool could have had a treble in the first season of Slot. The Reds recently lost to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final, while they were beaten from the Champions League after a defeat of a penalty shootout at home against Paris Saint-Germain.
Those narrow losses have probably not inspired in Alexander-Arnold (nor others) that the club is ready to continue to add large titles to their trophy cabinet. And that is perhaps the biggest reason for the full-back to separate with his boy's club.
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