Trent Alexander-Arnold Should Be Benched Ahead Of His Real Madrid Move – Carragher

Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher has come out to say that Arne Slot should drop Trent Alexander-Arnold for the rest of the season. This is coming after the English defender scored the winner against Leicester City, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Liverpool football club should never be used to give a player a send-off, so as long as it is obvious Trent is leaving for Real Madrid in the summer, he should remain on the bench.

Carragher added that if Conor Bradley is going to be LFC’s first-choice right-back next season, the club should be giving him regular game time now.

“Liverpool are not here as a football club to give someone a send-off. I understand what you’re saying in terms of you’ve got to prepare for next season, I totally get that point, I do. But for what he’s done for the club throughout these years, been there since a little boy, they’re going to win the league, just to give him a few more appearances to say: ‘Well done.’

No, it’s not about that. The point would be, is in Conor Bradley you’ve got a young player. It’s not like we’re talking about a 27, 28-year-old, talking about a young player who had a tough 15, 20 minutes at the start of the game, and that’s part of becoming an experienced player. I went through that in certain games, Gary [Neville], who’s commentating, would have gone through situations like that. It’s not about: ‘Let’s give Trent a send-off.’ It’s about: ‘Okay, we need to assess whether Conor Bradley is the guy for us next season playing week in, week out.’ Because the decision Liverpool will have in terms of Trent moving on is: ‘Does Conor Bradley become our first-choice right-back and we buy a back-up player who’s maybe a utility player, who can maybe play centre-back?’

“Or: ‘Are we buying a first-choice right-back and Conor Bradley’s going to have to battle with him?’ So that lad needs as much experience as he possibly can get. So yes, bring him on as you did today if you need to go and win the game, maybe against Spurs or a couple of weeks after that. But in terms of starting games right now, if Trent hasn’t committed to the club, which he obviously hasn’t, Conor Bradley should be starting every game.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.