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Liverpool have moved quickly to make sure they won’t be caught short at right-back this summer.

The Reds are set to lose starting full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold after more than eight years in the first-team.

Alexander-Arnold has developed into one of the best right-backs in world football during his time with Liverpool and will undoubtedly be missed as a creative force.

However, the Reds are setting about proving that Alexander-Arnold can be replaced.

He has clearly been keen to leave for some time now.

And as the Liverpool academy graduate gears up to join Real Madrid, some interesting details have emerged to suggest that Arne Slot may have actually been keen to sell him last summer.

But it will also leave them without a world-class footballer.

Replacing the 26-year-old will not be easy, but according to Give Me Sport, Slot actually tried to set those wheels in motion 12 months ago.

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They claim that Liverpool first approached Bayer Leverkusen about a deal for Frimpong last summer.

Unfortunately for the Reds, Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso is said to have persuaded the Dutchman to stay for another season.

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Although it’s claimed that Alexander-Arnold’s future was ‘far from clear’ at that point, it seems unlikely that Slot and Liverpool would have tried for Frimpong if they thought the No.

But that Slot was attempting to bring Frimpong in anyway suggests he knew the direction of travel long ago.

It would have been interesting to see how things had played out if Liverpool had managed to snare Frimpong ahead of this season.

That would have left Alexander-Arnold, Frimpong and Bradley as options for Slot.

Surely too many for one position.

With Liverpool convinced of Bradley’s potential and Frimpong a new signing, that would have left Alexander-Arnold as the odd one out.

Maybe the Reds would have looked for a sale.

The sad truth, however, is that Real Madrid would surely have been uninterested in paying a fee for Alexander-Arnold when they could bring him on a free one year later.

With the right-back seemingly set on a move to the Bernabeu, Liverpool would likely have found it difficult to sell him anywhere else.