No, because Dumfries is a donkey.
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I guess they will see how Maureen manages them.
Trent Alexander-Arnold has opened up on the āabuseā he suffered online after opting to leave Liverpool for Real Madrid last year.
In his first real interview about the issue, he also told the Daily Mirror how he felt after he was booed at Anfield in the game that immediately followed confirmation of his decision to move in May 2025.
āAbuse online and threats made via social DMs or in other ways are a sad part of life in 2026 if youāre in the public eye and doing things that create a lot of attention. I choose to keep those things away from me because they donāt feel real.
āI can rationalise that by knowing itās not representative of a football club I love, LFC, and itās not representative of my home city.
āThe booing and disappointment from Liverpool supporters is something Iām absolutely able to shoulder. I can understand it, in my own way. I heard a lot during that period that Liverpool fans didnāt want to be told how to feel or think, and I agree. But I hope one day thereāll be a degree of understanding about the decisions I wanted to make around my own life.
āIt hurts because of how much Iāve put into the club over the course of 20 years and the sacrifices I made for the club during that period. So of course it hurts, but I understand the disappointment. I even understand anger expressed through booing.
āGoing back to Liverpool after everything thatās happened it was on my mind. If Iām honest, if something affects me and upsets me, it shows in my family as well. They are in it with meā¦weāre together.ā
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nah feck him, he made his bed. he can lie in it.
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Be nice. Heās coming back on loan next summer 
Btw as expected heās on bench for their first league match.
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Please stop with the self pity. Exactly what sacrifices has Trent made? Heās never actually done a days work in his life and has been very well rewarded for playing football. I believe heās a multi millionaire now, so Iām not buying all this āwoe is meā nonsense.
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In any case, since leaving here, heās managed to sit on the bench under three different managers. What a waste; Iām afraid heāll end up like Coutinho.
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When i saw this thread bumped i thought he won ballon dāor
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I thought he might have played for once.
I had a tear in my eye reading thisā¦
Honestly, TAA is great only because he played for us. Or specifically he played for a manager who found a way to play him the way we did and a midfield that could accommodate him and cover him. Reality is he was never robust enough as a full time defender nor athletic enough with enough stamina and focus to be a full time midfielder. His stats with us on what he is good at is out of this world, but I would struggle to see him replicate any of that in any other team.
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I get that there is a certain amount of schadenfreude about seeing him at Madrid, but all I can really think is what an absolute tragedy to see someone throw away their career like this. It says a certain amount about the need, no matter how successful you might be, to surround yourself with people who can keep you grounded and humble.
The idea he was going to going to Madrid and win the Balon dāOr. Did he have nobody in his life to tell him to stop being so fucking daft?
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I always thought that the fact that the Neville brothersā contracts were handled by their father must have kept them grounded, but then Trentās agent is his brother. Agents are really only concerned by financial incentives, not player welfare.
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I donāt mind him leaving to Madrid. He clearly wanted to play football with his best mate.
Whatever he does in his career from now on is strictly upto him.
Iād blame his brother. As his agent , he needed to be wise enough to recognise that Trent would only get accomodated in a club like Liverpool which made him their main playmaker.
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He could have ended up a PL or CL lifting captain at Liverpool. All thrown away so he can say he sat on the bench in Madrid.
The most ridiculous thing is thinking that if Madrid have the kind of season where one of their lads could win the Balon dāOr theyād give it to the right back rather that Mbappe, Vini or Bellingham.
Objectively, heād have more chance winning the Balon dāOr at Liverpool.
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Absolutely. Even lil Mickey was able to win it with us 
Critically a brother trying to parlay his success managing Trentās career into an agent empire. Beyond the money he could make on Trent he was incentivized to push him to pursue that move as a way to market his own credentials. Huge conflicts of interest there.
But letās not use this struggle to rewrite history or downplay his quality. He was a marvelous player for us because he is a marvelous player. The fact he played for a guy who found a way to let him express it and brought it out of him doesnāt diminish that. It is just what football is at this level.
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