Football
He has helped Liverpool win the Premier League title, the Champions League, the FA Cup, two League Cups and the Club World Cup.
Good riddance!
Discussions over the protracted transfer are ongoing as the Spanish side look to secure the England international before the start of next season.
Multiple sources close to the negotiations have told BBC Sport that while a deal is still to be fully agreed, work towards completing the transfer is reaching the closing stages - though nothing has been signed yet.
Alexander-Arnold is in the final three months of his contract at Liverpool and is free to discuss a move abroad.
Real have made the 26-year-old a priority target this summer with sources close to the situation saying the Spanish club have been tracking the player for close to two years.
Alexander-Arnold has spent his entire career at Anfield, coming through the academy to make more than 300 appearances for the club.
He has won every major trophy while playing for Liverpool and is the club's vice-captain.
◉ 53 - Trent Alexander-Arnold
◎ 50 - João Gomes
◎ 10 - Gabriel Magalhães
◎ 9 - Josko Gvardiol
◎ 8 - Pedro Porro
◎ 7 - Fabian Schär
◎ 7 - Ethan Pinnock
◎ 7 - Trent Alexander-Arnold
He has been with the club since he was six and given them everything.
He is 26 years old. He has every right to live and work in a more sophisticated city than Liverpool.
Everybody knew he was being courted by Madrid. He did not need to say or do anything but give of his best on the pitch.
He has applied for work with a new employer with better prospects of success, more money and a better lifestyle.
What is wrong with that?
If Liverpool were to lose Salah, trent and virgil for nowt
then that's a huge blow to finding replacements.
Carragher is not the brightest is he.
even if they have replaced him f o c
Letting your contract drift and leaving for nothing can definitely be seen as stiffing the club in some way. The way he shushed the crowd a couple of months ago will rightly bring him some grief. Let's be honest, both him and the club knew what was happening all season and just had to play along. But you can only take the fans as mugs so far. Especially Liverpool fans.
That said, he's a generational talent. The best right back in the world. He's won everything there is to win with us, and he gets the chance of a mega payday where he's perhaps picking up tens of millions before his weekly wage. He'd be completely stupid not to take that deal. He's not going to work in the mines, he's off to play with Jude, Vinicius and M'Bappé, and is likely to win a load more stuff.
Madrid are vultures and the first to exploit this trend of top players happy to let their contracts go. It'll take a brave club to stick their best player in the reserves or tout him to Saudi for sale. Best you can probably do is hope to keep him settled and focused and have a good season while working on a replacement.
Trent is definitely the more valuable of the 3, but weirdly he'd probably be missed the least given Bradley's rise. As long as he can stay injury free we should be alright at RB for a good few years.
I think Trent has no doubt damaged his reputation at the club though. A bit like McManaman in how he'll never be welcomed back with open arms now. But we'll still revel in his highlight reels and corner taken quickly will live on for centuries. But life gives you hard choices sometimes and I still think he's made the right one for him.
TAA is right to leave Liverpool for money, lifestyle and better football and quality of life. We shall see what Liverpool will win next season.
Good luck to the young lad imho
Letting your contract drift and leaving for nothing can definitely be seen as stiffing the club in some way.
No player owes a club anything beyond their contract.
TAA cost Liverpool nothing and if they wanted money for him they should have sold him a couple of years ago.
What don't you get? Madrid or the North West? Oh pleeease digger!
Mar 26, 2025 -- 4:06PM, Whisperingdeath wrote:
Just look at how Liverpool and Carragher have treated Salah who is a fine role model as a footballer and human being and worth his weight in gold. Lets see how much it costs Liverpool to replace his goals, assists, winning mentality and example.TAA is right to leave Liverpool for money, lifestyle and better football and quality of life. We shall see what Liverpool will win next season.
How have Liverpool treated Salah?
Mar 26, 2025 -- 6:19PM, Whisperingdeath wrote:
Not 100% sure. Has he been offered a new contract? how many years? I dont think jamie carragher has treated him very well.
We don't know. We know they've spoken to his reps on a number of occasions but obviously nothing agreed yet. Is that wrong iyo?
I think some players can play on later. Speed going is of course a problem. I accept the budget issues. It is a tough call. If van **** were to go I would go too if I were Salah and take the Euro's. I would not go to Saudi for the money. Liverpool would have to rebuild. It's tough choices for everybody. look at Arsenal. they are in a great position to take it to the next level but how long have they needed a goal scorer and how many more midfielders will they buy? I hope somebody at Arsenal would have approached Salah to ask him what he wants! If you look at Arsenal just before January there were plenty of goal scorers available on loan like Osimen. That would have been a worthwhile gamble. Liverpool could have exploded just like Arsenal and the trophy is there for the taking.
I think football fans are stoopid much of the time. The reaction of some who should know better about a 26yo young man plying his trade is scurrilous.
Most of the time we do not know what goes on behind the scenes and who is playing hardball. I don't think players should be vilified for negotiating their future. I am not ashley criticising the clubs either as they have a balancing act despite the contribution made by these loyal or at the very least thoroughly commendable professionals.
Mar 26, 2025 -- 6:24PM, duffy wrote:
Liverpool are in a tight spot with Salah, he's old and they have to consider his falling off a cliff that will happen all at once, they can't afford to be sat there with him on an almighty contract if his form goes for the last time, his form is season has been incredible, so incredible that it should be looked on as an outlier, particularly at his age with it being realistic to expect it to not be repeated.
We talked about this a few weeks ago.
With sports science where it is, it's likely both the club and Salah himself have a good idea where the big drop will come. You could judge him on the last few weeks and wonder if it's arrived as he's been garbage for a bit. Hopefully, it isn't the case and it's just a blip and he goes on this way for years yet.
But the contract is almost certainly just wrangling over that. He'll wait £200k pw for another 3 years and the club will be worrying about being lumbered with an expensive dud for half that time. I reckon it'll get sorted out like, and it should really have been by now but on the face of it both the club and the player are doing alright while the negotiations are going on, so [shrugs shoulders].
As for Carragher, I don't really know what he's said or care particularly. He's an ex-player and in the media industry where it's necessary to take a contrary view occasionally to keep his profile up. But every decision has a knock on. Give Salah a bumper deal then other players and their agents will know, play hardball and maybe tell him to get stuffed and likewise. Best you can do is make what you feel is the right decision and handle it in the right way. If outsiders looking in want to get a couple of headlines then that's fine as long as they don't cross the line.
without lpool having to match his pay rise to trents wallet.
If virgil goes too then Salah can mop up all the gravy.
Would be great if he said I'll play for nowt if you give season ticket holders
a 75% discount,... The plane, the plane...
Mar 26, 2025 -- 9:07PM, 1st time poster wrote:
Salah been basically AWOL since goal at b,mouth
One word. Ramadan.
