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The Reds tried everything to convince him to stay, but in the end had to accept that the player wanted the one thing that Liverpool could never offer him: a change, and a new challenge.

The move has not gone down well with Liverpool fans, with Jamie Carragher among those to insist that Reds fans should be free to feel however they want about the announcement.

"I think first and foremost, I want to say it’s not an easy decision," Alexander-Arnold explained to the official Liverpool website.

And I think now is the right time for me to do that.

"Obviously there’s been a lot of noise around what the decision was going to be and how that was going to look.

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Now that we’ve won the league and we’ve been able to celebrate it and celebrate such an amazing achievement, I felt like now is the right time to get it off my chest and tell the fans the truth, and now is that time."

Liverpool.com says: Alexander-Arnold was never going to make himself popular by announcing his departure