Trent Alexander-Arnold selected the choice of ‘successful the Ballon d’Or’ over ‘being Liverpool captain’, and his response leads Jamie Carragher to assume that “he’s going to Actual Madrid.”
Liverpool’s No. 66 is out of contract on the finish of the season and, with Actual Madrid able to pounce, there’s an comprehensible degree of concern over the place his future will lie.
And he stoked the hearth for a summer season exit when he picked successful the Ballon d’Or over three different choices for what he would most like to attain in his profession.
The choices throughout his Sky Sports activities interview have been: win one other Champions League; win the Ballon d’Or; turn out to be Liverpool captain; or win a trophy for England.
Trent to remain at Liverpool or go to Actual Madrid ??????
— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) October 27, 2024
His response involved Carragher, who echoed the ideas of Liverpool followers when it got here to the percentages of the 26-year-old extending his contract at Anfield.
“He can try to win the Ballon d’Or, there’s nothing incorrect with ambition,” Carragher mentioned on Sky Sports activities following the 2-2 draw at Arsenal.
“However my first thought once I learn that was ‘you’re not successful the Ballon d’Or as a right-back for Liverpool.’
“Ballon d’Or winners usually play for Actual Madrid or Barcelona. That’s the place the most effective gamers on this planet go.
“If that’s his final ambition, I believe he was requested about successful the Champions League, the World Cup or the Ballon d’Or.”
Certainly, of the Ballon d’Or winners, the highest two golf equipment are the Spanish duo, every having had a participant win the award 12 instances.
“And he selected the Ballon d’Or, which I believe is a bit unusual or weird,” added Carragher.
“I believe you’d at all times choose the World Cup or the Champions League, it’s a workforce sport, however he has acquired large ambition himself and why not?
“You solely get one profession. He’s a singular full-back, he’s completely superb, and he acquired Liverpool again into the sport [vs. Arsenal] with the go.
“However the very first thing that got here to me once I learn that interview is that makes me assume he’s going to Actual Madrid.”
It isn’t a knock on Alexander-Arnold’s ambitions, however it’s telling that 12 of the final 14 Ballon d’Ors have gone to gamers in LaLiga.
Liverpool have had just one winner in Michael Owen (2001), and the right-back has clearly made a degree to the membership that they need to persuade him that his profession ambition is achievable at Anfield.
