I Won’t Be Happy Or Angry If Trent Alexander-Arnold Leaves Liverpool – Carragher

Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher has come out to say that he won’t be happy or angry if Trent Alexander-Arnold leaves the club this summer. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he’ll probably be somewhere in the middle if Trent decides to Liverpool in the coming months, because while he understands a lot of players seeing Real Madrid as the pinnacle, he expects the England defender to cherish winning with the club he supports more.

Carragher added that as a local player, he does not think there’s any club out there who should be more important to Arnold than Liverpool.

His words, “I wouldn’t say I’m happy for him or angry with him. I’m probably somewhere in the middle, really. You’re almost like, a little bit disappointed, really, because he’s a great player. I want him to play for Liverpool. I’d love him to do what me and Steven Gerrard did, where he plays his whole career at the club. He’s playing for a team now at the club that is in a lot better situation than what it was like when we were there with Liverpool. They’re going to equal Manchester United this season in titles, and you’d have to bet on them actually going past them in the next three or four years.

Could you then go on and win another couple of European Cups before you finish? He might be a legend already in some people’s eyes because of what he’s achieved and what he’s won for the club and the teams that he’s played in. But just to sort of win with your club, I always felt that was pretty special. I mean, I never had the opportunity to do it with anybody else.

But, yeah, more, more disappointing as a local player that he didn’t see this as the absolute everything. But a lot of players do see Real Madrid as the absolute. That is the top of the mountain for a lot of players in world football. Barcelona I should add in as well. They’re the two most glamorous teams in world football. I accept that, and players have gone before. But when it’s a local player, you probably just feel it a little bit more.

No, I’m not looking thinking, “You’ve got to do what Stevie done.” I just think, when you’re a local player, you do feel about the club a little bit differently to others, which is normal. And I think you get treated by the fans a little bit differently. Sometimes that can be a positive, sometimes that can be a negative. Now, you look at the reaction of the supporters about the three players not immediately signing the contracts, it felt like it was a lot more sympathetic to Virgil Van Dijk and Mo Salah than it was to Trent Alexander-Arnold. There’s almost a feeling that, “Oh, we’re lucky that Mo Salah and Virgil have stayed here their whole career, normally, those type of players go to Madrid or Barcelona.”

And we almost accept it, but we can’t accept it from a local player, because you’re supposed to feel what I feel. I’m a fan. I don’t think there’s any club out there anywhere who’s more important than Liverpool. And as a local player, you should feel that. Listen, it’s difficult for any footballer to always feel exactly the same way as a football fan who can’t see past their own club. A football career is a short career. You want to maximize it, whether that’s through money or success or a different experience. I’ve accepted it. The lad moves on. I’m not angry about it. I’m just slightly disappointed. But I can understand if Liverpool supporters are angry about it because they only see their club, and nothing else comes into their world at all.”

WOW.