Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is not happy about an exit from the club. Slamming the move as well as questioning on what the player was ‘doing’. Liverpool had a busy summer with notable incomings and outgoings.
Joining the Liverpool Academy at the age of nine, Gerrard went on to have a glittering career with the Reds. Spending close to seventeen years with the senior team, Stevie G went on to win nine trophies with the club including the iconic 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul.
The boy from Whiston, Merseyside was left feeling puzzled about the thought involved in a Liverpool exit.
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Gerrard not happy with Liverpool exit
Gerrard believes Real Madrid got to Trent Alexander-Arnold’s head (Credit: Imago Images)
Trent Alexander-Arnold had a similar start to his Liverpool career as Gerrard, coming up the youth team ranks. Making his senior debut in 2016, he had become a prominent clog in the Reds wheel. Real Madrid took notice and came calling with the right-back leaving the club at the end of last term.
The former Liverpool captain feels the prospect of playing for big clubs does get into the head of players. “If I take my Liverpool hat off, I think any player in the game when Barcelona and Real Madrid come, it’s going to turn your head,” Gerrard said.
Sharing his own experience on Rio Ferdinand presents, Gerrard revealed, “This is me speaking without my Liverpool hat on at the moment. Real Madrid came for me with Mourinho, and it turned my head.”
“It didn’t get as much traction and noise as Chelsea because it was shut down pretty quick because of the timing of it and what Real Madrid wanted me to do to manufacture that. But it turned my head. It turned my head, for sure. It’s Real Madrid.”
I wouldn’t have done it says Gerrard
However, the former England international doesn’t agree with the way Trent made his exit from the club. “What are you doing? What are you doing? You’re arguably one of the best teams in Europe,” he exclaimed.
Additionally Gerrard also spoke on the success Trent has had with the club, “You’re winning things that I sit here now and still dream of winning. You’re winning European Cups. You’re one of the main men. The fans adore you. What are you doing? But this is with my Liverpool hat on, because I love Liverpool football club.”
However he is hoping that the right-back does find success at Madrid, “To leave Liverpool Football Club where he was at in the prime years, getting off with a new contract, he took a risk on in my opinion. And I think he’s living that risk now. I hope it works for him because I love the kid. Love the kid to bits. I wouldn’t have done it. But he’s good enough to make it work.”
