I’m burning me fookin shert, la! Not me new one, me one from four years ago!
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Liverpool Football Club are bigger than any player. They have lost elite players before and carried on. Keegan leaves, Dalglish arrives, the trophies continue. When a player leaves, it opens an opportunity for another, either promoted from within or expertly recruited. Liverpool are very good at player development and player recruitment. Conor Bradley is still only 21, and obviously not yet in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s class, especially passing, but he showed his talent against, amongst others, Chelsea in Jan 2021 (one goal, two assists) and against Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe (that tackle).
Bradley’s unfazed by occasion or opposition. He invariably steps up whenever stepping in for Alexander-Arnold. Alexander-Arnold is being criticised by some Liverpool fans not only for the decision, barring a late U-turn to join Real this summer, but for the manner of the process behind his exit. The free transfer, the silence. There’s very rarely a smooth, seamless, accepted way to leave a club. Show me the acrimony. Fans feel let down, spurned. But it needs recording and remembering that Alexander-Arnold has played well this season even with all the distraction of Real’s interest.
Now 26, he’s given so much to Liverpool over a decade. And he’ll leave, having contributed to Liverpool being champions again. Just as he contributed to their previous title success. To their Champions League success. To their FA Cup and EFL Cup success. Alexander-Arnold has represented his boyhood love with skill, boldness, pride and passion on 349 occasions, scoring 22 times and assisting 86 goals. He’s contributed fully. He’s also represented the Club well off the field, committed to local community initiatives.
Liverpool are a great club, on the up under Arne Slot, but Alexander-Arnold will be joining the biggest club in the world. The lure of Real Madrid is obvious. Bernabeu, his mate Bellingham, Mbappe, Vinicius Jr, Ancelotti, possibly Xabi Alonso next, their need for a younger right-back with Dani Carvajal 33. As Alexander-Arnold gets on with his career at Real, Liverpool will get on with next season - their 134th. A few tears will be shed, a few angry words will be unleashed but life will go on. [#LFC]
By: https://x.com/henrywinter
[8:29 PM · Mar 25, 2025]
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Yeah, unfortunately every fanbase has it’s % of idiots.
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Absolute ballbag.
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Agreed…
The other part of this is the opportunity it creates to reset our right side in a more secure way, while keeping it productive…
The beauty of football is that there are many ways to skin a cat…
I’ve watched the dutch player Gertruuda, under Slot, at Leipzig and for the Netherlands. His game was largely developed by Slot. Just wondering if perhaps, that is potentially the future for Quansah…
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It’s dumb to get a name on a shirt that could possibly date.
Unless your under 11 its dumb anyhow, then again burning a shirt on social media is equally dumb.
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From the age of about 16 I determined
- never buy a shirt unless its already old enough to be retro
- never add a player’s name to your shirt unless they have already left the club, stopped playing and legacy already fully written.
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proto-hipster
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“Ultimately, though, any criticisms of Alexander-Arnold based around ‘loyalty’ will be steeped in hypocrisy given that fans of all clubs cannot wait to see the back of players who fail.”@davidlynchlfc
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I was a hipster before it was cool
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Broadly agree with point 2, I have a couple of Gerrards and the 19/20 without a name. Think I’ll get Mo’s name on this seasons kit though, as he’s a club legend whatever happens this summer, and the title will be mainly down to him.
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People like to dwell on the 0.01% idiots fans.
Trent leaving is hardly the end of the world, talent wise or financially. Will be near impossible to replace like for like, however replacing the position is not that difficult. We might just focus on someone that is more rounded, rather than someone who is exceptional in one aspect of his game.
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But wasn’t that because when you were 16 players didnt have their names on their shirts yet ? 
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Come someone repeat that? I didnt hear what he said
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Not a fan of Guillem - he’s another RM mouthpiece.
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Might be a part of Slot’s thinking (I suggested in another thread that Slot might actually find it tactically easier to play with two more conventional fullbacks) but I think that it’s Trent who pulled all the strings here and who knew exactly what and when to do.
There is a part of me that wonders if our close failures might have influenced his thinking. I mean, he lost two CL finals to Real Madrid and two PL titles to Man City by a point - all of a sudden, Klopp is no longer here, team is about to get overhauled and isn’t getting any closer to winning CL, while he’s entering his prime years and is wanted by the club who seemingly have a deed on CL.
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Not sure the latter point is that significant in the decision, for a team already in transition we were pretty dominant in the CL for much of this season. As for Klopp leaving, i wouldnt be surprised if he suspected or knew Trent was keen to go to Madrid already and that was part of why he left when he did as the next phase of the team rebuild was going to need a manager committed to the team for several years to guide that transition.
Just imagine if Klopp was leaving this summer!
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