
Trent Alexander-Arnold will have to decide his future at Liverpool at some point in the next few months but until then the fans are waiting with bated breath as rumours of a move to Real Madrid continue to build momentum.
Liverpool are desperate to keep one of the biggest success stories of their academy who came through the system, won every major trophy with the club and is still only 26.
Losing him on a free transfer next summer would be a PR disaster for an ownership group that always had an uneasy relationship with the fans despite all the success in the last decade.
Real Madrid are lying in wait and have already offered him a mega-deal to move to Spain but even Paris Saint-Germain are keen to try their luck with the defender.
Alexander-Arnold has not said a word about the negotiations with Liverpool but there are suggestions that he has already rejected multiple offers of a new deal from the Reds.
There is an air of inevitability about the defender moving to Madrid next year and many feel it would be too hard for him to turn down the glamour of Los Blancos.
Amid all the noise, the defender has struck a poignant note about what it feels like to come out of the Liverpool academy and make it big with the club.
No one can take away what I did at Liverpool – Trent Alexander-Arnold
Alexander-Arnold is a boyhood Liverpool fan and that is why his departure would cut deep with the fans who have protected him from all kinds of criticism for years.
He has been at Liverpool since he was six and admitted that every day has been about being the best player in training to make sure that he reached the next level as he made it through the ranks.
The defender indicated that he never knew he would play so many games for his boyhood club but was sure that he wanted to wear the Red shirt in his football career.
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He stressed that making his debut for the club was one of the most special moments as at that point he knew no one could ever take it away from him that he represented his boyhood club.
“My debut [was special]. From the age of six, my dream was always to play for Liverpool. It was something that motivated me every single day of my life”, he said on beIN Sports.
“Coming through the academy, getting closer and closer and closer to it, that was a motivation.
“Every training session I was like ‘I need to be the best player in training every single day and that will give me a better chance in the long run’.
“Because if I can be the best player in my age group then I can go into the next age group.
“Then it was ‘can I be the best player in training and eventually I’ll be the best player’ and keep going and keep going until eventually it happens.
“It was a long, long journey and I said to myself, no matter what, ‘I might go on and play 500, 600 games for Liverpool, I might play one game for Liverpool, I might play 300, I might play however many, but I might only ever play one game for Liverpool’.
“The moment I stepped out onto that pitch and the referee blew his whistle and I played if I got injured in the first minute, I’d still say I’d made my debut.
