I also need one.
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This is why im glad Trent has chosen to go because absolute bollocks revisionist history.
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Thanks and goodbye. All that’s needed to be said really. No need for spiteful vitriolic nonsense. Lad gave us 20 years, we gave him a career, now he wants to try something new.
Cheerio.
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I have no doubt he will be booed and whistled but that is more down to Madrid fans being entitled arseholes than it is anything to do with how Trent plays. He’s an incredible player and he’ll continue to be one there, I think other players will be his water carrier, his job will be to get the ball to the forwards as fast possible. Let guys Valverde do his running for him.
Anyway, I dont want to blueprint his success there, I hope everything fails when it comes to Real Madrid
I just can’t hold against him the desire to try something else and try a new life. He’s young, childless, didn’t he recently split up with his girlfriend too? He’s going to try and create a whole new life for himself. I’m the one in my family who did that - my parents, brother, cousins, uncles, aunties all still live within 20 miles of Liverpool. I live on the other side if the ocean and I’m happy with that choice, knew itnfrom about age 10 that I didn’t want that. I can’t in good consciousness deny the right of someone else to try it, just because I like him as a football player.
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Or you can move to the Madrid forum!
Wishing Trent good things to come. Got us back on our perch.
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The most devastating sabotage in history.
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I didn’t think you would try to get rid of me though I’m sure there’s a few who wouldn’t mind seeing the back of me.
Not a chance of that, I would only know one player, wouldn’t have a clue who Madrid were playing. Nope not possible. Trent has gone forever to me, unfortunately. Not forgotten as I remember ex players every now and again.
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But not everyone’s like that, or thinks like that. I believe TAA wants to experience something new. He’s made reference to captaining the side in a previous interview, even though it wasn’t as club captain, but as far as he’s concerned, he’s been captain, and he’s won everything with us, some more than once (PL and Carabao Cup). Sure, he hasn’t captained the sides to trophies, but maybe he doesn’t place as big an emphasis on that. As far as he’s concerned, he’s done it all with us, and he’d rather experience the glitz and glamour of Real Madrid while he still can, sample a new culture, a new playing style, in another legendary stadium, with all the commercial opportunities that may arise as a result, and all while being only 26 years old, than try to take over the captaincy from VVD in the future (whenever that is) and try to win the top prizes as the club captain.
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There is only one club that is unequivocally bigger than Liverpool FC in world football: Real Madrid. I can’t begrudge a player at the peak of his powers, and having won everything with his boyhood club, taking that step.
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No ill feeling towards him at all - mainly because I don’t really hold any kind of affection for him like I have past players, I maintain that if the club had every intention of keeping him then don’t let a player’s contract enter the last 6 months when clubs like Madrid can start talks.
This has been the worst kept secret in football and one I personally won’t be losing any sleep over and think it’s best for both parties, I even welcome the fresh up if we were to sign someone like Frimpong to bring new life.
Maybe one day he’ll look back at his career at Liverpool and realise it was the best time he had and also the pinnacle because one thing’s for sure is he’ll be missing home far more than home will be missing him.
Thanks for the good memories and adios amigo 
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It makes no sense as well because Alexander-Arnold is already a club legend.
Thanks to Bradley’s emergence the blow isn’t as much as it would have been otherwise, but we’re still losing a lot.
If I try to think positively about this, there is also not much a guarantee that Alexander-Arnold will provide that much value beyond the next 3-4 years, because there are a lot of miles in those legs.
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Bugger, I’ve just realized that my avatar is outdated as well! Will have to find another one… 
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God, Im going to have a melt down if my avatar becomes “out of date”
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Like I said earlier I think the term legend is very hard to really define and differs from person to person. As a player I don’t think you can plan your career with the goal of becoming a legend at a certain club. There are some people who shit on Gerrard and Carragher everytime they are mentioned, there are some who think Luis Suarez is a legend.
It’s just a very personal thing I think. For example I understand that people who saw Graeme Souness play think of him as a legend and possibly the best midfielder we ever had. When I think of Souness I think of the idiot who started a riot in Turkey, was a shit manager and who did exclusive interviews with The S*n while the city boycotted them. I don’t have the warm and fuzzy memories of his playing days to think about because I wasn’t born.
Personally Steve Finnan was the fucking legend at RB, but that’s because he just happened to be the RB when I was 13 years old and everything seems much more legendary and meaningful when you are that age! Now I’m a cynical middle aged man who suspiciously eyes Mo Salah while muttering that Dirk Kuyt was way better.
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Finnan is to this day the second best RB I’ve seen for us.
Of course, these guys are professionals and view things differently than us fans. Also, regarding the term ‘club legend’, I’ll amend my former argument about him being like McNamanan: Mc left us quite early in his career without having been able to do anything noteworthy, while Fowler for instance stayed. For me, Fowler is a club legend and deserves all the love he gets from the fans, despite of having won less than he could have elsewhere. Her was Liverpool through and through, Mc isn’t. If he had chosen to stay, who knows… we could have done better than we did. Carra and Stevie are club legends as well, no doubt about that, and anyone trying to talk otherwise is an idiot.
Trent has won the lot with us, and that is indeed worthy of being fondly remembered, not in my eyes as a genuine club legend like Fowler, Gerrard or Carra, but to be fair with him, still high up the rank.
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I don’t think anyone’s begrudging him that though , certainly not me. It’s entirely the manner of his leaving and the financial hit that the club has missed out on that grates. It’s the same as what happened with McManaman and it will be held against him in exactly the same way.
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That’s fair but I think one extra factor is that the Liverpool McManaman left was really in desperate need of that transfer money, this one isn’t. We are financially successful and a well-ran club. Of course we would prefer to have an extra 50m or so in the transfer fund but it’s not as much of a gut-punch financially as it was when McManaman left.
Not that I think any of that is really factors in Trent’s decision-making, so I’m not crediting him with these thoughts, but McManaman leaving really set us back both in losing a superstar and in not being able to afford a new one. I think now we don’t really have the same financial issues.
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