After a 20-year affiliation with the well-known English aspect, Alexander-Arnold will exit the membership on the finish of the season in the hunt for a brand new problem.
Trent Alexander-Arnold has introduced he’ll go away Liverpool on the finish of the season after 20 years on the membership, with the England proper again broadly anticipated to hitch Actual Madrid.
Alexander-Arnold, who has simply clinched a second Premier League title with Liverpool, didn’t point out his subsequent vacation spot when confirming his departure from Anfield on his social media accounts on Monday.
He mentioned it was “simply the toughest resolution I’ve ever made in my life”.
“This membership has been my entire life – my entire world – for 20 years,” the 26-year-old Alexander-Arnold wrote. “From the academy proper by way of till now, the assist and love I’ve felt from everybody inside and outdoors of the membership will stick with me perpetually. I’ll perpetually be in debt to you all.
“However, I’ve by no means identified anything and this resolution is about experiencing a brand new problem, taking myself out of my consolation zone and pushing myself each professionally and personally. I’ve given my all each single day I’ve been at this membership, and I hope you are feeling like I’ve given again to you throughout my time right here.”
Whereas Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have not too long ago signed new two-year offers with Liverpool, there was lingering uncertainty over the way forward for Alexander-Arnold, who was additionally out of contract on the finish of this season.
“I do know a lot of you have got puzzled why or been annoyed that I haven’t spoken about this but,” he wrote, “but it surely was all the time my intention to maintain my full give attention to the staff’s finest pursuits, which was securing [league title] No. 20.”
Alexander-Arnold has received each main honour with the Merseyside membership, together with the Premier League in 2020 and once more this yr, in addition to the Champions League in 2019.
He was key to revolutionising the function of a proper again, with Alexander-Arnold having been Liverpool’s most inventive participant at instances together with his marauding runs down the proper and his skill to return infield and pick passes to the staff’s attackers.
“From the underside of my coronary heart, I thank all people – my coaches, my managers, my teammates, the workers and our unimaginable supporters – for the final 20 years,” Alexander-Arnold wrote.
“I’ve been blessed sufficient to stay out my desires right here and I’ll by no means, ever take with no consideration the particular moments I’ve been lucky sufficient to have lived by way of with you all. My love for this membership won’t ever die.”
If he does go to Madrid, it could be on a free switch, and he would observe within the footsteps of the likes of Steve McManaman, Michael Owen and Xabi Alonso in swapping Anfield for the Santiago Bernabeu. That will imply him becoming a member of his England teammate Jude Bellingham in Madrid.
