Urgent Liverpool: Real Madrid’s pursuit of Trent Alexander-Arnold intensifies

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Dutch gaffer Arne Slot’s arrival at Liverpool coincides with a peculiar period in the club’s first team squad and overall structure. Much changes have followed in the backroom department and as it stands many important players are at an impasse with contractual terms.

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Mo Salah is nearing the end of his recently acquired extension. Club skipper Virgil Van Dijk commented after the Euros that he will make an assessment of what’s next at both domestic and national level for himself. Quite frankly, that of urgent concern is that of his deputy Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Real Madrid continue to assemble a remarkable super team under Florentino Perez and next up in terms of strengthening are the full back positions. Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies is being touted for the left full back role while transfer rumours have put it that the Reds high flying full back is the preferred replacement for the veteran Dani Carvajal on the long run.

As it stands, the FSG management team of the English side will most definitely try to keep him at the club. While Trent himself will fancy the appeal of academy player to club legend, extending his stay will likely be dependent on the club’s ambition and vision for the years to come.

Over the years, FSG have remained a quite pragmatic management in terms of transfer window activity – choosing to spend only when its absolutely necessary. Over the last summer, the club desperately needed a no 6 profile and despite linked to the likes of Manu Kone, Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia, none made the switch to Merseyside.

A refusal to offer better terms led to the unnecessary exits of Sadio Mane and Gini Wijnaldum. Jurgen Klopp managed to work away around it but paid the dividends as those unfilled squad gaps proving to be the difference between the Reds and Guardiola’s City in his concluding seasons.

Keeping the squad’s important players and challenging in the new Arne Slot era would be much determined by the management’s penchant or reluctance to get into the spending books and quite interestingly at a period the purported takeover talks with Bordeaux has fallen through.

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