Trent Alexander-Arnold (RB) Real Madrid

Utter load of bullshit. He has been transparent in that Q&A posted on the official site.

What Lynch and the like mean is that he should drip feed the media every single thing, especially to himself so he can get exclusives and therefore put his name out there even more.

Alexander-Arnold already made it amply clear he wouldn’t be letting this play out in the media, and he didn’t make any remarks about it at all. What’s wrong with that?

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Difference being those statements Mo was making was because he clearly wanted to stay and he was putting up one of the best PL seasons of all time.

Trent meanwhile has only made his little video to tell us all he’s off.

So yeah, different standards for different reasons.

It’s quite clear, especially given the comments from Robertson as well, that the players are not liking it.

Booing is quite clearly about the ego of the people who are doing it, not about the club.

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I read Robertson’s comments very differently. He’s not telling people how to feel, tacitly allowing expression while subtly not getting drawn into it. Commentators on the event would do well to heed it. As for players not liking it, Dear Dominic has not had the fire of a night at Anfield, that sort of raw energy doesn’t come from shrinking vioiets who are afraid to make their feelings known.

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As I’ve said previously, not arsed either way if he gets booed or not, 2 more games and he’s of zero interest to me.
But, some of the very same people who have championed peoples rights to protest about topical/political issues, now suddenly outraged/disappointed/judgemental about supporters expressing their feelings.

Society is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards

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That’s absurd. It hinges entirely on the presumptions that (a) “journalists” know anything, and (b) that he had “seemingly already made up his mind to go”.

If anything, I remember the chatter around that time being that he had already made up his mind, and that he was 100% moving to Madrid. It could very well have been that he really only made his mind up in the past few weeks, and so he wouldn’t have been wrong in making that gesture.

Why? They have the right to do so, but you also have the right to disagree about whether they’re right about doing it, or whether they’re self-defeating.

Yeah, but the pool of available clubs who would be interested in a 33 year old forward is rather different from a 26 year old.

Smacks of free speech but only if it’s my speech, in all honesty.

I think he’s quite clearly expressing that he’s unhappy about it, not sure what you want to argue about that.

It’s not about “being afraid to make their feelings known”. It’s about idiocy, putting their own egos and feelings ahead of what they claim to value.

Why? I’m not arguing they don’t have the right to do so.

I’m arguing that it’s brainless, and self-defeating. Just like throwing paint over the Mona Lisa.

Your entire attitude has been that “I don’t like that he’s leaving, I don’t like the way he’s leaving, so I can boo, the fans have the right to boo”.

But it’s not exactly sending a good message to players who would want to play for us, that you can spend 20 years with us, win pretty much everything, and yet be booed because you want something different in life?

How you manage to equate political protesting with booeing your own player is beyond me, but besides that there’s a time and a place for everything.

You want to express your feelings towards TAA? Write him a letter, call in to TalkShite, that’s all it’s good for, make a video of yourself burning his shirt, boo him if you must while he’s getting on the bus, just don’t do whatever it is that you want to do, during a fucking match against a rival.

But apparently that’s too much to ask.

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The booing was disgraceful.

no seeing both sides. Plain and Simple.

Trent has given Liverpool plenty over the years. His choice if he wants to move to Madrid after winning it all in the English game.

In terms of a football perspective, we’ll move on fine without Trent. That doesn’t diminish what he’s done with the club but it just means that our game style will change. And frankly , I’m excited at the prospect of our game becoming more unpredictable without Trent. Too often have our build up play centered along the right wing with Trent and Mo.

The club is bigger than that and I expect the fanbase to rise above such idiocy.

Applaud Trent , make him miss out on what he’s leaving behind. And also applaud him for what he’s given to the club.

Bunch of entitled pricks who were booing. But there were quite a lot who were cheering him as well.

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What are you on about? Egos, claim to value? I think they value loyalty and fuck the ego. Liverpool has always been about the collective. Always. Trent has rejected that principle, at least in their eyes, and they let him know in no short measure. You and I don’t get to judge them for that and there is no easy absolving of him. He’s been advised badly about the manner of his leaving and that’s on him and them, not the fans inside Anfield.

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Perhaps but Arne has been brilliant this season and I feel has managed pressers better and won with a team with which Klopp couldn’t win the PL.

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Someone should rename this “The Karen Thread”

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Do people literally not read any post other than their own bile?? Pricks, scum… What next? Murderers? Get. A. Fucking. Grip.

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That’s unfair. We should have won the last season were it not for the circumstances beyond our control (pgmol and the injuries). Far worse than what the entitled crassteta team has had to face.

Also, the previous times Jurgen came close have to be reckoned too

It’s a huge jump from calling a section of the fanbase entitled pricks and then saying … Murderers.

Some. Perspective. Please.

Bullshit fucking perspective. Winds me up no end at people calling our own fans in the stadium pricks and scum. Get some perspective into that before hitting the keyboard in faux outrage