Liverpool legend bizarrely tells club to SELL Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid

Liverpool should consider selling Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid due to his frailties as a defender, according to one club legend, and instead play Conor Bradley as right back in the long term. 

Alexander-Arnold, 25, is out of contract in the summer of 2025 and thus far there has been no breakthrough in talks over a new deal. 

He is already among the club’s top-paid players, on around £180,000 per week, and one of the new hierarchy’s priority tasks is to decide how to proceed over a new contract with Alexander-Arnold and some more of the club’s biggest earners. 

Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are also out of contract in just over a year’s time and there is much for Richard Hughes, the club’s new director of football and Michael Edwards, FSG’s CEO of Football, to ponder. 

Real Madrid are known to be interested in adding Trent on a free transfer in the summer of 2025 once his current Liverpool terms expire but could well bid for him this summer with only one year on his deal. 

If the Reds were to receive a suitable bid, then they should consider waving goodbye to their homegrown superstar, according to Steve Nicol, anyway, who believes that in Conor Bradley the club have an equally good prospect coming through. 

Nicol is a right back who won four league titles and a European Cup during his Liverpool days.

Nicol says Trent is a poor defender

“I think the fact that Klopp’s leaving, it’s going to be interesting because as we have all said, Trent Alexander-Arnold, as a full back, is a poor defender,” Nicol said on an ESPN podcast. 

“There is no getting away from that. I don’t care who you support, what team you watch, Trent Alexander-Arnold isn’t a good defender.

“But he is so good going forward that it wouldn’t be a surprise if Real Madrid were to offer, I don’t know, 60, 70 or 80 million for Trent Alexander-Arnold when you have a young kid in Conor Bradley, who is a miles better defender, great going forward, but is in the same class as Trent.”

Club vice-captain Alexander-Arnold has won all there is to win with Liverpool since making his first-team breakthrough under Jurgen Klopp. 

He has played over 300 times for the Reds, being an integral part of their successes in the Premier League and Champions League.