Claims Trent Alexander-Arnold desires wages within the area of Mo Salah‘s club-record wage to re-sign at Liverpool have been described as “vast of the mark.”
Although there was a regarding quiet round Liverpool’s talks over a brand new deal for Alexander-Arnold, that’s anticipated to stay that method.
Neither membership nor participant are keen for his or her negotiations to play out in public, although the Mail‘s Lewis Steele has supplied contemporary readability on the state of affairs.
After options Alexander-Arnold wished a wage within the area of high earners Salah and Virgil van Dijk – additionally out of contract on the finish of the season – Steele relayed phrase from sources in claiming that as “vast of the mark.”
“He is aware of his place within the pecking order and this resolution will definitely not be pushed by funds,” the reporter provides.
As an alternative, Alexander-Arnold’s resolution is considered as “whether or not to go along with his head or coronary heart” – the previous seemingly being a transfer to Actual Madrid and the latter extending his stick with boyhood membership Liverpool.
Whereas the dearth of remark from both the right-back or head coach Arne Slot could point out that the extra doubtless situation is a swap to the Bernabeu, “the phrase from contained in the constructing has at all times been calm.”
“On this explicit deal, each events are mentioned to have been life like of their calls for,” Steele provides.
If that’s the case, it might merely come right down to Alexander-Arnold’s private needs, with each Liverpool and Actual Madrid providing elite-level alternatives.
Clearly it’s a difficult selection for a participant who, at 26, could possibly be signing the largest contract of his profession when he places pen to paper in 2025.
Whereas Salah and Van Dijk could have fewer choices given their age, making the prospect of staying at Anfield extra easy, Alexander-Arnold might courtroom a real bidding conflict.
Liverpool will hope their provide, tied to an nearly certainty of captaining his boyhood membership, is sufficient to persuade their No. 66 to remain.