That’s why I was surprised they announced it before the end of the season, they probably should have waited until after the parade tbh.
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There was no winning situation once Trent made his decision
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I am conflicted on Trent,
He has helped us win the league and I would love for him to be involved in the last game and hope he would be applauded as helping us achieve the pinnacle of football and becoming champions.
The last game should be used as celebration for our brilliant season and everything else should be forgotten.
https://x.com/asim_lfc/status/1921620427647885412
Sad end of Trent’s Liverpool career
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Embarrassing to be honest. I thought we were better than that.
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Chloe sums it up the best and how a lot of Scouse supporting reds feel, she is goes to all the home and away games.
I have also seen Chris Pajak, also of redmen TV and, I feel I am in his camp, as he said I didn’t feel comfortable booing a player in a Liverpool shirt.
He then says it was mental that Arne Slot brough him on in that game as that type of reaction was always going to happen.
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I think that laid to rest the rather dismissive, and lazy, internet fan trope that’s been trotted out here about how the ‘real’ fans should feel and that we should all be expecting the ‘real’ fans to rise as one to acclaim him as a legend and give him a fairytale farewell as he rides off into a glorious sunset counting his extra earnings. News to all but it doesn’t get more real than Anfield itself and if we are all starry eyed and overcome with emotion about the wonderful scenes we had a couple of weeks ago then we have to also acknowledge that there is also an edge to them that we have to accept, warts and all. This isn’t some fairytale where everyone always sings kumbaya and wishes someone fair seas and following winds to someone leaving, especially when there is a sense of betrayal around.
Trent made his bed, he has to lie in it. I cannot think that he will not have been offered a contract and he’s wound it down and left the Club without the benefit of a transfer fee. He can’t be that fucking thick to not know that the Club has pretty much always balanced incomings with outgoings so as not to have an excessive net spend so that does grate a bit. It’s also that we’ve been shafted by these pricks for a fair few players over the years with the only one I can think of that we got a decent fee for being Alonso. Plus local boy, been with the Club since a boy, Scouser in the team and talented to boot. Again, it’s an intangible that cannot be quantified with a number, but let’s face it that type of player is rare in the extreme in the modern game. We can literally count only two in the past quarter of century as born and bred Scousers in the team to the end of their top line playing days (Gerrard going to the US doesn’t count in anyone’s mind, I don’t think). Trent could have been the next and he should have been the next and decided that he wasn’t up to it.
It will pass, but anyone saying shameful, and embarrassing and calling the Reds that provide you with enormous pride with their support scum needs to give their heads a wobble. People are allowed to feel how they feel without the talking heads telling them how they should or, ironically, the internet fans. We’re always on about football without fans is nothing but when the fans make their feelings known it’s a problem? No, it’s that they aren’t fitting in with some perfectionist ideal that’s the problem and I say fuck that shit. Thanks for the memories Trent but you knew what you were doing when you were doing it and Anfield isn’t as blind and starry eyed so as not to have known it. He got what was coming.
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This. I hadn’t realised he had signed a four-year deal until last year or so, I think, that’s when the alarm bells in my head started ringing. While I’m convinced that he didn’t know he was going to leave for Real Madrid four years ago, I’m convinced that he made up his mind about it a year ago or so, that he even got tapped up at some point last year or the year before it, and that every bit of “emotion” he showed during the past season was artificial, manufactured.
That “emotional” part I can forgive as a long-time Liverpool fan. I can forgive him for wanting to try something new and different. I can forgive him thinking that he has achieved everything he could at Liverpool. What I can’t forgive is that he left the impression that he had used the club to his means, the impression that he’s bigger than all of this, and that he left the club that made him on a free for a club that could afford to buy five of him if they wanted to. There are nicer, proper ways to leave your club and this wasn’t even close to it.
Had it been up to me, I would have liked the stadium to completely blank him, by the way.
As a side note, I can’t wait to see a product of Arsenal, Man United or Chelsea academy leave their club under similar circumstances, just to see the reaction from pundits and so-called football experts. My TV feed cut to Michael Owen lamenting in the studio over his sad fate of being booed when he first played for Newcastle at Anfield. He also claimed it was minority of fans, just like today - it wasn’t, you self-serving cunt. I really want to hear whether you’d be telling Man United fans how to feel if the crown jewel of their academy left on a free for Real Madrid or Barcelona - because a lot of these pundits are making a point of telling us how we should feel and behave about him. We make up the fabric of the club as much as any football player, so I’ll not stand for anyone telling me how to feel about all things related to Liverpool FC.
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Well said, that was an embarassing post from that poster!!!
They offered him a contract renewal over a year ago. He could have made it clear then he was leaving irregardless of any offer being made, facilitating a move last summer and bringing in a transfer fee. Instead he decided to run down his contact in order to go on a free and receive a bumper pay day from Real. He’s gone and that’s the end of it but he hasn’t done himself any favours with the home crowd and will be remembered as much for how he left as for what he did on the field.
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I forgive him, as this is what modern football is. I just don’t think he is saintly and I certainly think he has gone about it in a way that means that some will boo him and he ought to know it. He is surely man enough to cope with that, or it’s rather pathetic. Again, if getting a perfect send off was that important for him, he would have quite probably managed to make it so the club got a fee for him. So again, shrug
We cannot possibly expect of all emotional Liverpool fans to think it is ok that he leaves on a free. Many will predictably think it treason. It is how football fans are and Trent knows that.
But thanks for the memories, he was a stand out player indeed when he was here.
But he wanted an adventure to the Galacticos and engineered it so he could leave on a Free, so thank you and good bye, Trent.
I’d add two mitigating circumstances: his inconsistent performances over the last three years and the fact that we won the league. If it was the opposite, I’d probably be up in arms.
I won’t be following his Real Madrid career with interest but I hope that it will be an abject failure because I otherwise wouldn’t be able to explain how two very good, title-winning football coaches hadn’t been able to make him play consistently well in the last three seasons and Alonso could all of a sudden.
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I actively dislike Real Madrid so I hope he fails. Not because it is Trent, but due to the bed he chose to sleep in.
For me, it’s about the Spanish Civil War Legacy and Caudillo Franco. That legacy is for me signficantly more important than Trent Alexander Arnonld’s feelings. If he wants to play for Franco’s club, then that is his prerogative, but I don’t have to cheer it and I don’t have to wish him well. And certainly not when he leaves on a free (can’t blame anyone getting actively sold to Real Madrid, after all).
But again, thanks for the good memeories, it was indeed a terrific time when he was here. But now it is over and that is that.
Very eloquently put. And I’m another who is getting just a little pissed off with the posters on here who like to put themselves on a pedestal and condescend and preach to anyone who dares to criticise either the club , players or players’ performances. It’s getting fucking old already. If they don’t understand the ill will that Trent has aroused , then they don’t really understand the club , the city or the people.
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Thats why I mentioned Scousers etc. We are mostly long distance supporters we aren’t living and breathing what those who are in Liverpool are feeling, especially as they consider it’s one of their own leaving and when we are, in their words, boss.
In any case, I really don’t think this is an issue that people should antagonise each other for having opposing opinions about.
It’s a dumb thing to fall out for. Some fans will love all ex-players, particularly long serving fantastic players like Trent, others will grumble. It is how fans are. Some can defend their opinions, others cannot. But that too isn’t too important.
Me, I’ll wish him well when he leaves Real Madrid 
But I would be dishonest against myself if I started to wish Real Madrid success, just because I used to cheer for Trent.
Very surprised that you would post anything so condescending.
It’s not about understanding the city or the club, it’s about basic human decency. It’s about supporting the players who represent the team.
If you’re disappointed, fair enough, but booing our players while they’re wearing the shirt is unacceptable.
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But it’s not about cheering him while he’s playing for Real, none of us is going to do that, it’s about treating him decently in the last few days of his career at Liverpool.
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Not arsed either way if he got booed.
Reading the faux outrage about it is a bit cringy though
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This. It’s not even about TAA himself. It’s about supporting the team.
If someone wants to boo TAA, he has every right to do so. Just not during the game, not when he’s supposed to be cheering the team on.
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