Mohamed Salah and Sergio Ramos clashed in the final of the Champions League 2018 and although the Spaniard was donated for his share in the incident, Trent Alexander-Arnold had a different view of the case
Trent Alexander-Arnold will be a Real Madrid player on Sunday and his comments about the former Los Blancos star Sergio Ramos may say everything about why the defender makes a switch to the Spanish capital. Ramos, now 39, has fallen in the Pantheon of football villains on the red half of Merseyside.
It unfolded when Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool faced Madrid in the 2018 Champions League final in Kyiv, the stage was set for Mohamed Salah to take out a stunning season by firing the Reds on their sixth European cup.
The dream of the Egyptian star, however, quickly descended into a nightmare after a brutal struggle with the rugged defender of Madrid Salah on the floor. The Talisman of Liverpool was only accompanied for 26 minutes in the field of the field with an injured shoulder – his Champions League dream and that of his team in deck.
Madrid eventually prevailed on 3-1 and the incident was enough to make Ramos an enemy of Loyalists for life -something of a persona non grata on merseyside. Yet Alexander-Arnold saw the event different.
Shortly thereafter, he was owned by the admiration of Ramos', Win-at-all-all-cost mentality, and it is these comments that could show why he was so enthusiastic to become a member of Madrid, with the winning values ​​of the Spanish giants who may be perfectly tailored to the 26-year-old.
Speaking in September 2018, while the rest of the Liverpool was still staggered about what Ramos took away from them, the full-back revealed its greatest respect for the Spanish star.
“Everyone has their way of winning and he has shown in the last 10 years that he is a winner,” Alexander-Anold told The Guardian.
“That also applies to his team. To win the Champions League three times in a row, something is doing. Ramos is probably the best center-back in the world for quite some time. Even if he was the enemy in May, you still have to respect him as a player.”
Although Klopp recently defended Alexander-Arnold against the jers to which he was subjected by Liverpool fans in the light of his approaching exit, it seems that they do not share the same opinion about Ramos.
“Is MR Sergio Ramos a really good guy?” Said Klopp on Toni Kroos' Einfach Mal Lupen Podcast in October 2024. “He is not my favorite player. The action was cruel. I could never understand that mentality, I never had so players and when I did, I made sure they left.”
Salah, too, could not bring herself to discuss Ramos and to concentrate earlier at what the moment came from him. “The final of the Champions League, a big dream for yourself, for the city, for the fans and for everyone. We wanted to win the Champions League,” he said and spoke in 2019.
“And that time, mentally, it was very, very bad. Especially when I was replaced, I went to the dressing room and I just cried because I felt that the Champions League was over.”
When he was asked if he had the chance to talk to Ramos since the game, Salah added: “Oh no. I didn't speak to him and the subject is closed for me. I'm not talking about him now.”
Alexander-Arnold will now participate in Real on time to play in the club World Cup after the Spanish side had paid a fee to release him early from Liverpool. The player has already agreed a six-year-old deal with the 15-times European Cup winners.