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Real Madrid has a legitimate reason for trying to get Trent Alexander-Arnold out of his Liverpool contract slightly early, with the Club World Cup set to take place in the summer.

Alexander-Arnold is walking away just as he enters his prime years, which is nothing short of a financial nightmare for FSG.

In fairness to the owners, the decision was made in January to rebuff an approach from Real Madrid worth up to $20 million, with Liverpool prioritizing the stability of Arne Slot's team as it competed for multiple honors.

To be precise, Real Madrid is now offering around $1.1 million to get Alexander-Arnold out of his Liverpool contract in time for the Club World Cup.

Liverpool could still receive a fee from Real Madrid for Trent Alexander-Arnold.

FootballTransfers, clearly leaning more on the contract situation, drops significantly down to $63 million (£47 million).

Liverpool could likely have recouped somewhere around the upper range of these figures if it had sold Alexander-Arnold last summer, with a year left to run on his contract.

But even that would have been significantly influenced by the looming threat of a free transfer.

Hypothetically, selling Alexander-Arnold in a situation where there was no contract stress could surely have netted Liverpool even more money.