BREAKING: Liverpool boss Arne Slot responds to Real Madrid bid for Trent Alexander-Arnold
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Arne Slot says he has spoken to Trent Alexander-Arnold about Real Madrid's interest in the Liverpool full-back and is confident transfer speculation around him won't destabilise his performances. Liverpool rejected an approach for a January transfer from Real on New Year's Eve, with the Spanish giants seeking to bring forward their move for the England international due to the long-term injury to Dani Carvajal.
The Reds made it clear that they have no intention of selling Alexander-Arnold this month, and that they remain hopeful of agreeing a new deal with the club's vice-captain. Asked about Alexander-Arnold's future and his discussions with him, Slot said: "Do you really think (I will say)...? I completely understand the question and why you ask it but you already know the answer, these conversations I have never shared, not about Trent not about any others, about what I talk to them about.
“If it would destabilise players at Liverpool if other people talk about them then we would really have a problem because if you play at one of the biggest clubs in the world everybody is always – for 12 months long - talking about you, sometimes in relation to other clubs.
"That happens so, so many times for our players so if that destabilises them then we really would have had a problem not only now but in the last six months because there were some talks about our players in the last six months and I don't think it destabilised them at all.".
On the potential of him leaving in January, Slot added: “I can tell you he is playing on Sunday (against Manchester United) and hopefully he brings the same performances as he brought in for the last half-year because everybody saw how great a first half of the season he had, how much he is here, how much he wants to win here.
