Liverpool have rejected Actual Madrid’s try to signal Trent Alexander-Arnold within the January window.
The defender, 26, will likely be out of contract in the summertime, and is free underneath laws to signal a pre-contract deal for subsequent season from New Yr’s Day. Madrid have lengthy been linked as his eventual vacation spot however an try to pre-empt that course of has fallen flat, with Liverpool rejecting the transfer.
Madrid’s method for Alexander-Arnold was rebuffed earlier than any monetary package deal for purchasing out the rest of his contract could possibly be supplied.
Liverpool’s executives proceed to be in negotiation with Alexander-Arnold’s advisers and household, with little indication, public or in any other case, that he wish to depart his boyhood membership.
The Alexander-Arnold scenario continues to be with out a long-term resolution whereas the membership are additionally nonetheless to succeed in agreements to increase the contracts of Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk. If Liverpool’s need is to maintain all three, then funds, revenue and sustainability laws and wage buildings could preclude that.
Final summer time, Liverpool made just one senior addition to the squad Arne Slot inherited from Jurgen Klopp, the Italian Federico Chiesa, who has struggled with accidents. Promoting Alexander-Arnold in January would launch funds as a “pure revenue” as he’s a former youth-team participant however that avenue has been rejected.
Madrid’s intention is for the England worldwide to be an instantaneous substitute for the veteran right-back Dani Carvajal, 32, set to overlook the remainder of the season with a cruciate knee ligament damage. Whereas Salah and Van Dijk have spoken on the report concerning the persevering with negotiations, Alexander-Arnold is but to talk in public on the scenario.
On the weekend, Slot distanced himself from the negotiations with the trio, with the supervisor saying: “I believe I’ve lots of management over what they do if they’re on the coaching pitch or in a gathering with me. However in case you’re speaking about their non-public life I don’t have management. I’ve management over what I count on from them on the pitch and I’m actually happy to see what Trent, Mo and Virgil carry on the pitch.”
Alexander-Arnold was a mainstay within the Klopp period, and was a Premier League title winner in 2019-20, having lifted the Champions League the earlier 12 months. With Liverpool at present operating away on the prime of the league, Alexander-Arnold, ought to he transfer on, could log out from the membership he joined as a six-year-old with a second title.
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