Liverpool boss Arne Slot responds to Trent Alexander-Arnold concerns amid Real Madrid transfer interest
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The right-back is a target for LaLiga’s giants and is out of contract in summer. Arne Slot acknowled he has had conversations with Trent Alexander-Arnold, with the Liverpool right-back the subject of an initial enquiry from Real Madrid heading into the new year.
With the vice-captain out of contract in summer he’s now allowed to discuss terms with overseas clubs for a potential free transfer at the end of the season, though reports suggest the Spanish club could return with an offer to take him to Madrid this month.
That’s despite the Reds rejecting their initial conversations over a deal, amid an intention to continue negotiating over an extension for the England international. Asked about discussions between himself and his player, Slot waved off the suggestion he would reveal the contents of any such talks, but stated he had spoken with him and explained why any reports in the media were not a concern to him.
“Do you really think...!” he trailed off, laughing the unspoken end of the sentence ‘that I’d tell you’. Asked for more general overviews, he added:. “I can completely understand the question that you ask it but these conversations I have never shared. Not about Trent, not about any other. It was a conversation as many others we have and let’s leave it to that.
“If [interest and media speculation] it would destabilise players that other people talk about them, we would really have a problem. At the biggest clubs in the world people always talk about you, for 12 months long. We would have had a problem not just now but in the past six months and I don’t think it destablised them at all.”.
