Here are the key parts…<\/strong><\/p>\nI think first and foremost, I want to say it\u2019s not an easy decision and there\u2019s a lot of thought and feeling that has gone into it. I\u2019ve been here 20 years now, loved every single minute of it, achieved all my dreams, achieved everything I\u2019ve ever wanted to here. Giving everything day in, day out for 20 years, I\u2019ve got to a point now where I feel like I need a change, a new challenge for me as a player and as a person. And I think now is the right time for me to do that.<\/p>\n
Obviously there\u2019s been a lot of noise around what the decision was going to be and how that was going to look. I know a lot of people will say I should have said sooner, a lot of people will say maybe I waited for the right time. But I felt personally the focus should always be on the pitch.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got full confidence in the manager and the staff and the club going forward. It\u2019s not about me thinking we\u2019re not going to fight for titles or fight for trophies season in, season out… it was never about not having confidence in that, it just boiled down to what I felt I needed, and that is a change.<\/p>\n
Growing up, seeing players leave that I\u2019ve loved watching and have helped the team win trophies, you feel a connection to the players that you watch, especially when they bring success to the club as well. So, I completely understand the feelings that go with that and I\u2019ve felt it myself so I completely understand that the news will disappoint a lot of people, will anger people, it will make them upset. Obviously that went into the decision as well \u2013 it\u2019s something you don\u2019t want to do, you don\u2019t want to ever have these moments where you feel like you\u2019re letting a lot of people down, you\u2019re disappointing a lot of people. But I\u2019ve had to make a decision for me, it\u2019s as simple as that. It\u2019s a difficult one, it\u2019s one that has played on my mind for a long time but being able now to get it off my chest will feel like a weight is lifted. And I think it\u2019s important for the fans to know where I stand and know what the truth is.<\/p>\n
I fell in love with the club from a very, very young age and that\u2019s something that has grown and grown day in, day out. This club has given me the opportunities to achieve everything beyond my wildest dreams. I can never repay enough of what\u2019s been given to me and I don\u2019t take it for granted at all. I\u2019ve given everything every single day for 20 years now. I\u2019ve sacrificed everything. <\/p>\n
I know the news will take a bit of time to set in and people won\u2019t be happy and they\u2019ll be disappointed. At the end of the day, you can be angry and hurt at me but I just hope that the lads, the rest of the team, the staff, everyone else is able to feel how good a season this has been and able to feel the love and support from the fans as they have done all season.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no doubt about it, I\u2019ll be back \u2013 I\u2019d love one day to be able to bring my kids to Anfield and show them that that\u2019s where I\u2019ve played and show them the videos and highlights of what we were able to achieve together. So just a huge thank you for that, thank you for everything you\u2019ve ever done for me. Thank you for the support, thank you for the love that I\u2019ve always felt, thank you for always having my back. I will always love the club, I will always love the people of the club, I will always love the fans and the supporters. Even though I\u2019m leaving as player, as a fan I\u2019ll always be a Liverpool fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REAL MADRID officially began negotiations with Liverpool to sign Trent Alexander-Arnold in time for the Club World Cup.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,179,763,544,189,79,100,8935,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-81077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-la-liga","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-liverpool-fc","11":"tag-real-madrid","12":"tag-section-sportfootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-transfer-news","15":"tag-trent-alexander-arnold","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464977865321061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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