Trent Alexander-Arnold

I do

love the fact that we've gone from Trent Alexander to Arnold and gone, fucking hell, right? Let's get the complete opposite, by the way.

We've tried

enough in between, haven't we, to be fair? Yeah,

All right.

What else have we got here to discuss on Anfield Index? Well, this is the big one that came up a few days ago, and this is something that has cropped up again today, and that is talking about Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Now, David Lynch, of course, has given his thoughts a lot on the Trent situation.

And he said, he can't see Liverpool being interested in Trent.

And you do get a sense now that Munoz settling on who his players are, like Fede Valverde right now is first choice overall.

two of the best right-backs in the world in Denzel Dumfries and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

But Mourinho just sees Valverde for what he offers in terms of running ability and his ability to push into central midfield as well, which he did in this game on occasion.

And so, yeah, this was clearly the best Real Madrid have played.

Obviously, the game changes with Ryan Granberg's red card against Man City, but other than that, they've been absolutely rock solid, haven't they? Like Morgan says, you know, it just helps having a centre-back at right-back for, you know, keeping you the defence tight.

OK, he's not going to be Cafu going forward or Trent Alexander-Arnold or anything like that, but He gives it a go, he got forward, he was involved in the first goal and, you know, there was a tackle he put in, was it in stoppage time? When it's 2-0 and Liverpool are going to win the game and he slides in on the edge of the box, perfectly timed, wins the ball.

Karad really, really loved it.

And I thought it shone through on Monday in the press conference when he spoke before the Villarreal game of how much he's enjoying it at Liverpool, you know.

There were good performances all over the pitch.

And even Trent Alexander-Arnold came on for three minutes.

So but yeah, look, your point about Barcelona, they can be got at.

Moving towards more domestic matters and possibly I think the game that you really want to focus on is United and Bournemouth.

And if you just like have one experience of one thing, then, you know, you've not really seen the world, have you? So there's that experience.

I'm probably thinking of Trent Alexander-Arnold when I'm saying this.

I mean, you know, come on, he's won everything.

He's given everything.

Right, that interesting discussion point there, lads.

Now, one thing I've been asked to ask you is, because of rumours persisting over the last few weeks, and a certain former Liverpool right-back being now third choice at Real Madrid, you know, and with it being the Ballon d'Or tonight, and I don't think he's even in the frame to win it, I just wondered, and I'll start with Ben on this one, could you have seen Trent doing that headed clearance that Big Ron did on Saturday? Or would Liverpool have been a goal to the worse at that point if Trent had been right back?

No, there's no way you'd do that.

But he's a totally different player, Les, isn't he? So I think there's elements of Trent's game that Araujo can't do.

You know, as good as Araujo is, I can't see him spraying a 60-yard pass to a forward in space.

They're just totally different players.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just don't understand it.

one was a...

Trent Alexander-Arnold's card.

I think it is, we sort of, there's times when we try to force content out, but by the time you've planned it and done it, it's irrelevant.

Do you know what I