26-year-old defender Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contract with Liverpool expires at the end of the season. Despite reported interest from Real Madrid, the Merseyside club are also in talks and attention is focused on the departure of the team’s vice-captain.
Various speculations have been circulating in the media, including that he is prioritising staying at Liverpool and that he is close to going to Real Madrid. Only club officials know the truth of this, but they are anxiously awaiting to see him become captain at Anfield.
The right-back, who is also gaining a regular place in the England squad, spoke about his favourite moment in his Liverpool career, revealing that it was the game in which he made his first-team debut, something he had dreamed of since he was a child.
“My debut. 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,”
“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.”
“And no one can take that away from me, at all, no one can ever take that away from me, that I made my debut. That was my dream, my one and only dream as a child.”
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