Trent Alexander-Arnold

[dom9]

To answer you and Dom9. I have no interest in making excuses for multimillionaire investor owners. I'm sure the way they conduct business they focus on results and getting it done. Whatever conditions existed that caused this, the buck stops with them.

I'm not making excuses for anyone either but that is harsh imo.

Considerimg where we were 9 months ago and where we are now, things could have gone south pretty quickly.

[The_weatherman]

No but his defending has been better recently at least.

It has, but that was epic. I won as many duels today.

[fidget]

Virg gave him an earful at least twice. I was screaming for Bradley. I think we should take the offer and be done with it.

He deserved an earful.
Made Dalot look like prime Giggs

[Mark79]

To answer you and Dom9. I have no interest in making excuses for multimillionaire investor owners. I'm sure the way they conduct business they focus on results and getting it done. Whatever conditions existed that caused this, the buck stops with them.

Who’s making excuses for anyone?

You asked how the club came to be in the situation that we let 3 major contract renewals drift in to their final 12 months.

I gave you a critical contributing reason. Who you hold responsible for that is up to you.

[Paul12]

I'll try one more time. We have three starting high value players who can leave on a free all at once in the same summer.

What I posted previously, with two years left on the deal a club should be making a decision at that point. Even if there is one player in the situation of running down their contract how do we end up with three?

Everyone has a job to do. The owners and back room staff are all responsible for player contracts. Its on them.

That is all.

And what if that decision is to sell but the player doesn't want to leave...maybe without an absolutely ginormous 'loyalty payment'?

[SB]

I think Arne needs to have a chat with Trent & ask him if his heart is here or there as performances like that can’t be tolerated.

[BG1973]

I'll try one more time. We have three starting high value players who can leave on a free all at once in the same summer.

What I posted previously, with two years left on the deal a club should be making a decision at that point. Even if there is one player in the situation of running down their contract how do we end up with three?

Everyone has a job to do. The owners and back room staff are all responsible for player contracts. Its on them.

That is all.

And I posted nuances that you're unwilling to consider or respond to.

If you were running things we would have sold them all 18 months ago, Klopp would have probably left then before the midfield rebuild and the team would have looked a lot like current man city for any new manager. Instead we are in prime position for a rare man city dip.

[Assassin]

I think Arne needs to have a chat with Trent & ask him if his heart is here or there as performances like that can’t be tolerated.

That performance was totally unacceptable, we would have been better playing with 10 men. **** the prima donna ****. Banish the cunt to the U -18’s

[Exiled_red]

I think it's unfair to say of the back of one performance that his head is in Madrid or he doesn't want to be here. But his levels of performance have dropped of over a period of moths, at times he looks like he can't be arsed, maybe that isn't really the case but when there is talk of wanting out or a new contract of £300k a week, a performance like that will attract criticism

[Norbs]

I think it's unfair to say of the back of one performance that his head is in Madrid or he doesn't want to be here. But his levels of performance have dropped of over a period of moths, at times he looks like he can't be arsed, maybe that isn't really the case but when there is talk of wanting out or a new contract of £300k a week, a performance like that will attract criticism

He's going to be arrested now, like he was when the midfield invert was tried. If it costs us anything it risks our title push..I think he needs to go, imagine us getting Madrid in the CL, there's a conflict of interest there

[danperkins]

Playing poorly is one thing or having a dip in form but strolling around and not being bothered, in such a huge game is totally unacceptable. Making an effort is the bare minimum for a professional footballer.

[The_weatherman]

He's going to be arrested now, like he was when the midfield invert was tried. If it costs us anything it risks our title push..I think he needs to go, imagine us getting Madrid in the CL, there's a conflict of interest there

Yeah, we should take the offer now and close the case. It's too far along really, the difference between him and Bradley was night and day, if Trent had gone off at 2-1 we'd have won that game.

[BG1973]

He's going to be arrested now, like he was when the midfield invert was tried. If it costs us anything it risks our title push..I think he needs to go, imagine us getting Madrid in the CL, there's a conflict of interest there

Play someone else in the final then.

It was one bad performance, he's been really good for a long time with all the external noise.

[labourRed]

Playing poorly is one thing or having a dip in form but strolling around and not being bothered, in such a huge game is totally unacceptable. Making an effort is the bare minimum for a professional footballer.

It puts the manager in a difficult position. Clearly Slot is smart enough to hook someone playing that badly, early. But hooking a player the club are trying to get to sign a 300K contract is different gravy.

Trent always had games like yesterday in him, regardless of the contract situation tbf.

[Harv]

Playedlike someone thats off. Looked timid, like he didnt want to get injured. Then you combine that with the usual lazy passes and over reliance on hollywood balls and its just a recipe for disaster.

Virg looked like he wanted to rip his head off and boot it over the stands at one point.

Club need to sit down with him and either bin now or he's staying. Cant have a player with one foot out the door.