Liverpool have been told to \u201cbend over\u201d Real Madrid and set an \u201cextraordinary\u201d demand for the Spanish giants to land Trent Alexander-Arnold \u201cearly\u201d.<\/p>\n
Alexander-Arnold<\/strong><\/a> is in the final couple of months of his Liverpool contract and has announced that he will join Real Madrid on a free transfer this summer.<\/p>\n It has been widely reported over the past year that the Englishman is Real Madrid\u2019s top target for the right-back position and he was always more likely than Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk to leave Liverpool<\/strong> <\/a>amid serious interest from the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old waited for Liverpool to win the Premier League to announce his next step, but it is reported that negotiations between the Reds and Real Madrid are ongoing over an \u2018early release\u2019 before his contract expiry on June 30 as they are keen for him to feature at the Club World Cup.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether an agreement will be reached between the two clubs, but former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has encouraged Liverpool to stand firm because Real Madrid are \u201cnot a charity\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cGood for them \u2013 why shouldn\u2019t they? Do Liverpool want to be a contributing factor to Real Madrid being crowned in inaugural Club World Cup champions?\u201d Jordan said on talkSPORT <\/a>when discussing Liverpool refusing to let Alexander-Arnold leave without being suitably compensated.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Mikel Arteta mid-table in Premier League manager rankings topped by staggering Slot<\/a> \u201cHe\u2019d keep you to the contract if there wasn\u2019t an alternative. He wouldn\u2019t be saying: \u2018I\u2019ve finished my last game so I don\u2019t need to be paid up to June 30\u2019. Because the circumstances have changed and he\u2019s already got himself an outcome and Madrid want this outcome.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you go to this tournament, what do you get if you win it? \u00a3100 million and if Liverpool give them a player to help them with that, they\u2019ve just given Madrid \u00a3100 million to make sure Madrid can maintain their dominance in European football so why? They\u2019re not a charity.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, they are (a direct rival). Who are going to be playing in the Champions League next year? It would be commercial sense. So what. Trent Alexander-Arnold has achieved what he wanted to achieve and you can believe the benefits of Trent Alexander going on a free have landed where\u2026 in his pay packet.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Jordan has also urged Liverpool to make an \u201cextraordinary\u201d demand for Alexander-Arnold, with a \u00a3500,000 fee deemed insufficient.<\/p>\n \u201cReal Madrid do not have the right to have him until June 30, that\u2019s the contractual position,\u201d Jordan continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very what contracts should mean when it comes to the other side of the argument. Liverpool have had to abide by nature the way football is constructed, the Bosman Rule has changed the structure of it all.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want this player to play in a tournament Liverpool aren\u2019t in, it\u2019s not Liverpool\u2019s job to enhance Madrid\u2019s opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cI would bend them over and make them tie my shoelaces as well as give me an extraordinary amount of money\u2026 as much as I could rinse out of them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s \u00a3500,000, that\u2019s his wages. You want something I have got, what do I get in return? Some promise you might do something for me in the future? No, what I want is \u00a35 million and see how much you\u2019ll play towards that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have been told to \u201cbend over\u201d Real Madrid and set an \u201cextraordinary\u201d demand for the Spanish giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,225,179,12,101,544,23561,10031,8935,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-85774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-real-madrid","16":"tag-simon-jordan","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-trent-alexander-arnold","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114474638562174622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85774","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=85774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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