Steve Nicol has chimed in with the intestine ‘feeling’ that he has over Trent Alexander-Arnold’s future at Liverpool.
Amid the continuing contractual certainty surrounding the Reds’ vice-captain, rumours of a doable transfer to Actual Madrid have been incessant, with Soccer Insider‘s Pete O’Rourke claiming on Friday that Los Blancos are ‘making advances’ on the 26-year-old.
If the England worldwide doesn’t agree new phrases along with his present membership within the subsequent two months, potential suitors equivalent to Carlo Ancelotti’s facet would then be free to method him a couple of pre-contract settlement.
Nicol thinks Trent will go away for Actual Madrid
Talking on ESPN FC, Nicol claimed that Trent ‘suits the profile’ for Actual Madrid and that ‘all of the noises’ surrounding the right-back point out that he’ll go away for the Bernabeu subsequent 12 months.
The 62-year-old stated: “If anyone suits the profile for Actual Madrid it’s Alexander-Arnold, a full-back who doesn’t actually defend, though somebody praised him this 12 months however I’m not so certain about that.
“To be sincere, all of the noises I hear completely level in the direction of him going there. The truth that Carvajal had such a foul knee harm will solely imply that Actual Madrid’s want is even stronger than it was earlier.
“I get a sense in part of my abdomen that Actual Madrid and Alexander-Arnold are going to be getting collectively within the not-so-distant future.”
Trent has a large determination to make
Liverpool followers may be forgiven for having a way of dread that, the longer the contract saga rumbles on, the much less seemingly it appears that evidently Trent – together with Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah – will nonetheless be at Anfield subsequent season.
The participant could be considering that the chance to hitch the reigning Champions League holders (and serial winners of the competitors) at 26 is sort of troublesome to show down, even for somebody who’s proudly professed his Scouse origins and his love for his boyhood membership.
The hope from a Merseyside viewpoint is that, just like Steven Gerrard in 2005, the emotional attachment to LFC would merely make it too laborious for him to go away, whereas the prospect of emulating the Huyton lad and happening to captain the Reds to main silverware may also tempt him to remain.
Trent is already the vice-skipper at Liverpool, and because the native and skilled heartbeat of the facet, there’s a robust likelihood that he’s subsequent in line for the armband on a everlasting foundation if he stays put at Anfield.
Right here’s hoping that the tiresome saga will quickly come to an finish with the conclusion that all of us need – our quantity 66 placing pen to paper on a long-term cope with the one and solely membership of his profession.
