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Liverpool vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold has decided to leave the Anfield side and move on this summer, with a free transfer switch to Real Madrid now imminent.

It is a story that has dominated the news agenda, even though it has been expected for some time.

"I've not been fortunate enough to play for my boyhood club, win the things that he has won, and do the things that he has done," Tarkowski said on Monday Night Football.

"My opinion is that every young child's dream is to play for Real Madrid over everyone else in the world.

Trent Alexander-Arnold takes a throw-in during the Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United.

I can see the frustration from a Liverpool perspective, but I also understand him as well."

Liverpool will not get a transfer fee for Alexander-Arnold but could receive compensation if the Spanish giant wants to use the player at the summer's inaugural Club World Cup, which takes place before his existing contract expires.

"We all know there is a football pyramid," Jamie Carragher wrote in a column for The Telegraph in reaction to the news.

"The prestige of Real Madrid and Barcelona has put them at the tip of it for a long time.

"Then you have the group of multiple European Cup winners just below including AC Milan, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Manchester United, constantly jockeying for position, suffering their highs and lows, but always a pull for the top players and managers.

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