
Liverpool’s English defender #66 Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates at the pitch after the English Premier League soccer fit between Leicester City and Liverpool at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on April 20, 2025. Leicester have been relegated from the Premier League after a 1-0 defeat to Liverpool. (Photo by means of Darren Staples / AFP)
LIVERPOOL, England — Trent Alexander-Arnold introduced Monday he’s going to go away Liverpool on the finish of the season after 20 years on the membership, with the England proper again extensively anticipated to enroll in Real Madrid.
Alexander-Arnold, who has simply clinched a 2nd Premier League name with Liverpool, didn’t point out his subsequent vacation spot when confirming his departure from Anfield on his social media accounts.
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He stated it was once “easily the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my life.”
“This club has been my whole life — my whole world — for 20 years,” the 26-year-old Alexander-Arnold wrote. “From the academy throughout till now, the fortify and love I’ve felt from everybody outside and inside of the membership will stick with me perpetually. I can perpetually be in debt to you all.
“But, I have never known anything else and this decision is about experiencing a new challenge, taking myself out of my comfort zone and pushing myself both professionally and personally. I’ve given my all every single day I’ve been at this club, and I hope you feel like I’ve given back to you during my time here.”
While Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have not too long ago signed new two-year offers with Liverpool, there was once lingering uncertainty over the way forward for Alexander-Arnold, who was once additionally out of contract on the finish of this season.
“I know many of you have wondered why or been frustrated that I haven’t spoken about this yet,” he wrote, “but it was always my intention to keep my full focus on the team’s best interests, which was securing (league title) No. 20.”
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Alexander-Arnold has gained each main honor with the Merseyside membership, together with the Premier League in 2020 and once more this 12 months, in addition to the Champions League in 2019.
He was once key to revolutionizing the function of a proper again, with Alexander-Arnold having been Liverpool’s maximum inventive participant every now and then along with his marauding runs down the appropriate and his skill to come back infield and pick passes to the workforce’s attackers.
“From the bottom of my heart, I thank everybody — my coaches, my managers, my teammates, the staff and our incredible supporters — for the last 20 years,” Alexander-Arnold wrote.
“I’ve been blessed enough to live out my dreams here and I will never, ever take for granted the special moments I’ve been fortunate enough to have lived through with you all. My love for this club will never die.”
If he does move to Madrid, it might be on a loose switch and he’d practice within the footsteps of the likes of Steve McManaman, Michael Owen and Xabi Alonso in swapping Anfield for the Santiago Bernabeu.
Alexander-Arnold can be becoming a member of England teammate Jude Bellingham in Madrid.