It’s not been the most effective of seasons for Liverpool collectively, and it’s additionally been a poor 2022/23 marketing campaign for one or two people.
Not too way back, the Reds’ model of play was being lauded as have been the gamers and supervisor that have been executing it, however how rapidly issues change in soccer.
With solely a handful of video games now left till the tip of the season, the Reds have little prospect of moving into the Champions League and solely an affordable probability of creating the Europa League if outcomes go their approach.
It’s totally doable that some gamers have turn out to be complacent and brought their eye off the ball, as a result of how else do you clarify {that a} group that have been prime of European soccer a couple of seasons again and who had gained their first English top-flight title in over three a long time are actually caught in eighth place and determined for factors.
One participant that hasn’t seemed himself for some whereas now could be right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, and maybe that’s why Jurgen Klopp appeared to have moved him just a little additional ahead towards Arsenal.
Journalist, Dean Jones informed Give Me Sport:
“I’m informed they (Liverpool) are wanting extra for competitors for Alexander-Arnold than a direct alternative. That is smart at this stage.
“It will be tough for him to take in the event that they have been to go and spend £50m on a right-back as an alternative of someplace between £20m and £30m.
“It’s a tricky second for them, however the one option to get Alexander-Arnold to step it up a gear is that if he has that degree of competitors.”
He additionally famous in a separate Give Me Sport report that:
“Alexander-Arnold in all probability appears at different gamers like Reece James and the roles they’re allowed to occupy.
“A part of him should really feel he would thrive far more in a task like that.
“He received away with it when Liverpool beat everyone, they usually have been all the time on prime of the sport and all the time had the ball.”
If Trent is as much as the problem of getting competitors for locations, then it actually shouldn’t be an excessive amount of of an issue for the participant to realign his focus onto the issues that matter – or face the results.
