After Trent Alexander-Arnold had announced that he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, Mirror Football takes a look at six players who ignored the warning by Jurgen Klopp and left the Anfield Club
Trent Alexander-Arnold is not the first Elite Liverpool player who runs away from Anfield. With a switch to Real Madrid apparently on the horizon, the English international went to social media to announce that he will leave the club.
Alexander-Arnold, 26, has been his entire career to the Reds after he came through the ranks as a teenager. After two Premier League title Triumphs, a Champions League, a club world cup, the FA Cup and two competition cups, he leaves Merseyside.
But he is certainly not the first player at the highest level leaving the red side of Merseyside. While Luis Suarez flourished after their departure from Liverpool, many players saw their career touch a roadblock after haunting a movement.
The Exit of Alexander-Arnold has made part of Liverpool fans Van Streek, who are unhappy about him who may move to Real, who have defeated the Reds in two Champions League final since 2018. The right back will also be a warning that Jurgen Klopp ignores many years ago.
In 2017 Klopp said: “Stay here and they will eventually build a statue in honor. Go somewhere else to Barcelona, ​​to Bayern Munich, to Real Madrid, and you will just be another player. You can be something more here.”
While Alexander-Arnold is preparing for the next chapter of his football career, Mirror Football takes a look into six other players who chose to leave Liverpool and were made to regret it.
Philippe Coutinho
The move from Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona was probably the most important moment of Klopp's reign. The Brazilian was the player who gave Klopp the aforementioned warning before the Catalans Liverpool paid £ 142 million for his services.
Liverpool would use that money to sign Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker, Fabinho and many others, who helped the Reds to win the Champions League the next campaign. In the meantime, Coutinho's career staggered because he could not replicate his sparkle in the Nou -camp.
Although he enjoyed the loan of success in Bayern Munich, he would be sent to Aston Villa, where he worked with ex-Livepool teammate Steven Gerrard. A clear start boldly boldly, despite the fact that Villa signed him permanently. The Midlanders borrowed him from Al-Duhail in Qatar and Vasco da Gama in Brazil.
Jordan Henderson
When Klopp was informed that he would no longer be one of the first names on the team of the team, Jordan Henderson decided that it was time to look for new. Those meadows turned out to be in the Middle East, when Henderson moved to Saudi Arabia to reunite with Gerrard in Al-Eittifaq.
Henderson was on the receiving side of a huge recoil after the move, which lasted about six months. He ran away from his deal with Al-Etifaq in January 2024, before signing Ajax, where he remains a tumultuous period in his career after leaving the Reds.
Michael Owen
If the fourth, and so far, the last English player who won the Ballon d'Or title, it was no surprise that Real Madrid was interested in Michael Owen. In the summer of 2004, Los Blancos gave him the legendary No.11 -shirt by Alfredo di Stefano and signed him for £ 8 million, in a deal in which Antonio Nunez went the other way.
He scored 16 goals in 45 performances, but even though he played with Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Ronaldo and much more, Owen admitted that it wasn't quite right. In an earlier interview with Bein Sports, Owen said: “As soon as I decided to go to Madrid, I lost control of my career.
“It marked the end of the perception that others had mine as a player. It is true that it was the 'holy grail' for a football player, but it was also a place where the pressure is so intense that you can hardly breathe. It was not what I expected.”
Owen finally spent only one season with Real Madrid, before he went back to the Premier League with Newcastle United. He later had spells with Manchester United and Stoke City prior to his retirement at the end of the 2012-13 season.
Sadio mane
Fans of Liverpool will never forget the front three of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah. After winning the FA Cup and the League Cup in his last season, Mane Anfield left to move to Bayern Munich as part of a £ 35 million deal.
It was a difficult prospect, while he walked into the shoes that was left by Robert Lewandowski. The move from Mane to Bavaria turned out to be one of those transfers where neither the player or the club were the right fit.
After a single season, Mane was sold to Al-Nassr, where he now plays with Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia.
Divock Origi
Speaking a bad word about Divock Origi in Liverpool is sacrilege. In Anfield Origi fits in the category of the cult hero instead of Liverpool greats, because he was far from productive, but had a handy talent to score important goals.
Whether it was his bundled late winner against Everton in the Merseyside Derby in Anfield, the crucial fourth in the 4-0 comeback victory in Barcelona or the crucial second that the Champions League title achieved in 2019, Origi just thought it was often at the right time. In 2022 Origi left at the end of his contract to join AC Milan when the Football Team is pursuing.
Unfortunately, whether as a starter or from the bank, the finishing touch of Origi is leaving him. After a year, Origi was borrowed from Nottingham Forest, where he did not collect any goal in 20 Premier League performances. On his return to the San Siro, he was exiled to the reserves, where he has stayed since then.
Georginio Wijnaldum
Just like Origi, Wijnaldum contributed many huge moments in Liverpool, in particular his brace against Barcelona in that comeback in Anfield. In a summer transfer window in which Lionel Messi, Sergio Ramos and Gianluigi Donarumma arrived in Paris Saint-Germain, Wijnaldum was also signed by the French giants.
It seemed to be the perfect club in the most exciting time. Things just didn't work for him at PSG, who tried to donate a galaxy of superstars in a starting XI without ensuring that the basis was.
Wijnaldum moved to Saudi Arabia, where he was also reunited with Gerrard in Al -tifaq. He would continue to reveal that he initially did not want to move to Saudi, because he wanted to make an eye on the former club Feyenoord.