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Former Liverpool and Real Madrid striker Michael Owen(Image: James Gill - Danehouse/Getty Images)

Michael Owen believes Liverpool supporters should bear no grudge towards Trent Alexander-Arnold and has wished the full-back well as he prepares to leave the club at the end of the season.

The 26-year-old is expected to follow in the former striker's footsteps and sign for Real Madrid.

Knowing that the task of becoming Premier League champions was complete, Alexander-Arnold confirmed 'easily the hardest decision of his life' when telling Liverpool supporters that he would be leaving his boyhood club.



If he wants to go and try something new for his family, for him, just to do something different in his life, I've got no problem.

"It's different.

It's different food, different language, different weather.

It's different football, new stadium, it's in a white kit and not red.

"There is a lot of difference."

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Owen similarly came through the Liverpool academy to become an adored member of the senior team before joining Madrid for a fee of £8m plus midfielder Antonio Nunez in 2004.

"It's easy for me to say and a lot fans will be screaming at the tele," Owen continued.

Thank you and good luck, we wish you well'.

"Of course that's what I think and we're talking football, it's different to anything else.

"If you get a promotion, if you could do in your [position], everybody says 'well done, Matt (Chapman, his interviewer), congratulations'.

"But if it's football, no, you're a traitor and this and that and the other, which is quite sad because he's done everything."

Owen caused resentment by some fans on Merseyside following his exit by signing for bitter rivals Manchester United later in his career.

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Real Madrid hope to acquire Alexander-Arnold in time for June's FIFA Club World Cup.


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