Online Reporter
TRENT Alexander-Arnold’s announcement that he is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season confirmed what had seemed an inevitability for months.
And even though his next destination was not mentioned in his emotional farewell video, it is an open secret that he will join his friend and England colleague Jude Bellingham at Real Madrid.
Alexander-Arnold deserves credit for clarifying his future now. He could have taken the easy way out and left Liverpool supporters hanging until after the English Premier League title victory parade around the city on May 26. Instead, the 26-year-old has made his decision public with two home games left — the first against Arsenal, and the second on the final day against Crystal Palace, when Liverpool will lift the trophy to celebrate their 20th English league title.
It will leave him at the mercies of many Liverpool supporters who are baffled that the player they celebrate in song as “the Scouser in our team” has decided to leave his boyhood club on a free transfer.
Alexander-Arnold’s celebration of his late winner at Leicester City in April, when he ripped off his red shirt and hoisted it on a corner flag in front of Liverpool’s supporters at the King Power Stadium, prompted faint hope that he might find it impossible to leave the club he has called home for 20 years. — BBC Sport/Sports Reporter.
