Jamie Carragher thinks that Liverpool fans are right to feel disappointed by Trent Alexander-Arnold after announcing his decision to leave the club at the end of the season.
The Reds legend questioned the logic by moving to Real Madrid – where Alexander -Arnold should play his next football quarter – after crossing the academy and won trophies in a club like Liverpool.
Carragher, which is the second largest appearance manufacturer in the history of the Reds, accepted the position of the Spanish giants at the top of the football pyramid, but argued that local stars like Alexander-Arnold risk their “ inheritance ” for “ short-term gains ”.
“It’s like that,” he wrote in the telegraph. “Because supporters will make the difference between those perceived to put the club first in the current fight to face the superpower of Real Madrid and those who have been accused of thinking about their own career.”
On Monday, the 26-year-old finally finished months of speculation surrounding his future when he announced that he would not renew his contract beyond the end of the season.
“After 20 years at the Liverpool Football Club, it’s time for me to confirm that I will leave at the end of the season,” Alexander-Arnold wrote in a press release on social networks. “It is easily the most difficult decision that I have never taken in my life.
Jamie Carragher validated the feelings of Liverpool fans who feel disappointed by Trent Alexander’s decision to leave Liverpool and insisted that the supporters have the right to be
The 26 -year -old finally finished months of speculation on his future Friday morning and announced that he would leave at the end of the season
Alexander-Arnold celebrated the success of the title of Liverpool in front of the fans in Anfield last week
“I know that many of you have asked me why or been frustrated not to talk about it yet, but it was always my intention to keep my concentration on the best interest of the team, which was to obtain n ° 20.
“This club has been all my life – my whole world – for 20 years. From the academy so far, the support and love that I have felt from everyone inside and outside the club will remain with me forever. I will be indebted to all of you.
Many Reds fans have reacted with anger at the start imminent of the “most eminent and successful scouring of our team”, while those outside the club expressed more optimistic opinions on the situation.
Often, the years of service and trophy of Alexander -Arnold – which include a pair of Premier League titles – are cited as justification of the reasons why Reds fans should give the defender their blessing.
But Carragher rejected this story and insisted that Liverpool fans are right to feel injured by the start, especially when the team succeeds and seems well placed to win more major honors.
“The players are even more loved when they really mean it when they say they don’t want to play for anyone else,” he added. “If this image of living local talent, the dream is an illusion, people feel disappointed.
“(Ryan) Giggs and (Paul) Scholes will always be loved in Man United as members of the” class 92 “who never thought of leaving, while David Beckham is considered someone who had a career plan and who was brilliant enough to follow him.
“There is no good or harm to that. Different players have different characteristics and ambitions. Liverpool fans did not think that Alexander-Arnold had seen his way in the same way as (Michael) Owen and Beckham because he said that his dream was of captain and follow his hero (Steven) Gerrard.
The Reds managed to sign Mohamed Salah (left) and Virgil Van Dijk in New Deals, but Alexander-Arnold chose to leave
“Fans will obviously be upset.
Mail Sport was the first English newspaper to note that Real Madrid was confident to secure Alexander -Arnold in December – and little changed along the way.
It is understood that the contract is not yet officially signed but will soon be, with the international in England to join his good friend and his teammate Lions Jude Bellingham in the Spanish capital.
The fans received Alexander-Arnold with warmth despite all the noise of his future this season, but it will be intriguing to see how Anfield reacts on Sunday when Liverpool has the host of Arsenal in what will be his penultimate home match.
Alexander-Arnold was free to open talks with real clubs and others on the day of the New Year’s day after letting his Reds Moving contract.
The first call of sports director Richard Hughes in work was to the representatives of Alexander-Arnold and the final offer would have made him the most paid in the Premier League.
Liverpool is convinced that they did their best to try to stay.
The real one will now try to sign it in time for the FIFA club World Cup in June with a 10 -day window for transfers.
The defender won each major trophy with his childhood club, including the Champions League in 2019
Alexander-Arnold will be linked with the teammate of England Jude Bellingham (right) at Real Madrid
This will probably require some remuneration and cooperation of Liverpool – which is not guaranteed – but the Spanish club will try.
Manager Carlo Ancelotti is expected to leave the club this summer with the boss of Bayer Leverkusen Xabi Alonso the hot favorite to take over from the Italian.
Alexander-Arnold joined Liverpool at the age of six and played 352 times for his childhood club. He is vice -captain and has won all the trophies he can – the Champions League, the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup.
