After the referee blew the whistle at Anfield last Sunday, to a red sea of wild title celebrations in the stands and on the pitch, many Liverpool supporters stated on social media: “Can you really leave this Trent?”, or “You won’t get this anywhere else, Trent!”. Cody Gakpo gave Liverpool fans new hope for Alexander-Arnold to drop Real Madrid and extend his contract, commenting “Hope Trent stays on”. In other words, not completely decided. Paul Scholes believes the right-back who is going for titles chooses Real Madrid.
Paul Scholes has spent his entire career on the football pitch giving Manchester United the biggest titles – and keeping arch-rivals Liverpool behind him. Now he speaks as a football talker about the process with Trent Alexander-Arnold, but for Liverpool supporters hardly neutral.
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-It will be a difficult decision for him. When you are a local boy, it is very difficult to leave your club, especially when you have just won the Premier League. He’s at a big club, Liverpool, and if you’re not at a big club, it’s easy to move to Real Madrid. What he needs to keep in mind is where he is most likely to win trophies in the next few years,” Scholes told TNT Sports.
Then comes the “finger in the eye of the Liverpool supporters”
“I guess Real Madrid have had a slight downturn, but their declines don’t seem to last that long. There is definitely more competition in England with Liverpool. In an attempt to win the Premier League and Champions League, you will be competing with Man City, Arsenal, and even Chelsea can spend a lot of money again, so it is more difficult to win here. Does Liverpool look like a team that can continue to win the league for the next five or six years? I don’t think so yet. It may be disproven, but when City won the league, you thought yes, they will win it again,” Scholes says.
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Which shows Alexander-Arnold in the direction of Madrid.
“With Liverpool, you’re just not quite sure, and football is about winning trophies. So for Trent, that’s where he thinks he’ll win the most trophies, and you’d probably rather favour Real Madrid a little bit, purely because of their history in the Champions League and not so much competition in the league apart from Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.”
