Robbie Fowler has completely summed up the ideas of nearly each Liverpool supporter along with his tackle Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contract scenario.
With the Reds’ vice-captain now having simply 11 months remaining on his present deal and Actual Madrid reportedly circling like vultures, hypothesis over the 25-year-old’s future has been rife all through the summer time.
In his newest column for The Mirror (print version, 28 July, web page 72), the person affectionately dubbed ‘God’ implored Anfield chiefs to tie down the quantity 66 to new phrases as quickly as potential, in order that the lure of the Champions League winners – and ‘agent’ Jude Bellingham – is dispelled as soon as and for all.
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Fowler wrote: “When you may have arguably the most important membership on this planet in Actual Madrid monitoring you and a bromance with one among their biggest younger stars, it’s sufficient to show any participant’s head.
“I feel I’d converse for each Liverpool fan once I say we’ll all breathe an enormous signal of aid if Trent Alexander-Arnold indicators a brand new long-term deal at Anfield.
“I do know Liverpool wish to hold him and I’ve heard nothing to counsel he doesn’t wish to proceed his love affair with the membership as he enters the ultimate 12 months of his contract, however till Trent commits the subsequent section of his profession to his boyhood workforce, Liverpool are in harmful waters.”
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Even with the England worldwide having fun with a totally deserved vacation after serving to his nation to succeed in the ultimate of Euro 2024, Liverpool followers will likely be getting more and more determined for the membership to kind out his contract scenario sooner somewhat than later.
The longer that the uncertainty rumbles on, the extra that fears will develop over Trent being tempted to the Spanish capital, not least due to Bellingham’s presence on the Bernabeu given the duo’s well-documented off-field friendship.
As Fowler rightly says, there haven’t been any indications from the 25-year-old to counsel that he’s pushing to depart his boyhood membership, however even that ‘love affair’ might change into examined if circumstances change behind the scenes at Anfield.
‘God’ can resonate, having additionally change into a Kop idol after breaking by means of the academy ranks at Liverpool, however finally looking for (and getting) an exit from Anfield after he fell out with the late Gerard Houllier.
We’d prefer to assume that LFC chiefs are treating a contract renewal for Trent as a precedence, and there’s nonetheless 5 months remaining earlier than different golf equipment can strategy him a few free switch, but it surely’s not till we see an official announcement from the Reds that we will lastly relaxation straightforward about our vice-captain’s future.
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