Liverpool: Arne Slot dodging hints at Alexander-Arnold sale in January as Madrid prepare improved offer
Arne Slot claimed Trent Alexander-Arnold ‘is dabbling on Sunday’ when he was quized whether the Liverpool star might be sold in January to Real Madrid, who are allegedly planned to upwards the stake.
Alexander-Arnold is out of arrangement at Liverpool in the summertime, and the Reds have fallen short in their efforts to overview the academy graduate to protract his prearrangement at Anfield.
He can talk to foreign suitors this month and it’s been commonly putative that he will certainly responses to Real Madrid in the summertime, before a bombshell record on Brand-neoteric Year’s Eve rendered assume the Spanish titans were concocted to pay Liverpool a fee to indication him in the existent transfer window.
The Athletic’s David Ornstein claimed Real Madrid rendered an ‘technique to indication Alexander-Arnold’, yet this was ‘speedily robbed’ by Liverpool. He explained:
‘Liverpool have declined an technique from Real Madrid to indication Trent Alexander-Arnold in January.
‘The England worldwide owns been greatly attached with a responses to the Bernabeu when his arrangement runs out next off summertime and the Spanish club have presently rendered their attention official.
‘Real Madrid referred to as the Anfield hierarchy to evolve whether Liverpool were planned to sell Alexander-Arnold to them during the winter season window. However, zero numbers were claimed with Liverpool equipping it reasonable that they have zero attention in bargaining the 26-year-old’s leave in January.’
Queried about Alexander-Arnold’s future onward of their clash with Manchester Joined on Sunday, Slot claimed: “I seamlessly realise the misgiving and why you ask it yet you already realise the counterclaim, these conversations I have never shared, not about Trent not about any others, about what I talk to them about.
“If it would destabilise gamers at Liverpool if various other human beings clarify them then we would in fact have a crunch because if you play at one of the biggest nightclubs in the worldeverybody is habitually – for 12 months long – conversing about you, occasionally in relationship to various other nightclubs.
“That happens so, so innumerable times for our gamers so if that destabilises them then we in fact would have had a crunch not lone presently yet in the last six months because there were some rundowns our gamers in the last six months and I wear’t assume it destabilised them at unanimously.”
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Slot was then quized specially about the opportunity of Alexander-Arnold abandoning in January and skirted the misgiving.
On the opportunity of him abandoning in January, Slot added: “I can tell you he is dabbling on Sunday (versus Manchester Joined) and with any blessing he brings the disturbingly same capabilities as he brought in for the last half-year because every individual saw how nice a initially half of the period he had, how a building he is under, how a building he desires to win under.
“He tinkered an scrumptious gallery versus West Pork, we unanimously bear in mind the enact he conferred to Mo. I explore him on the mentoring progression every day kneading his a*** off. He is fully transferred out to us and he will certainly play on Sunday – if they wear’t tell me he is sick yet I wear’t consider them to.”
Slot’s remarks come amid claims that Madrid are deliberating adjusting with one more enquiry for Alexander-Arnold, and are concocted to pay £20.7m to retrieve the prearrangement performed this month.
