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If any Liverpool fans are still on the fence about Trent Alexander-Arnold’s impending exit, Real Madrid has just given a pretty good reason for them to be enraged.

We all of course know now that the right-back will be leaving Anfield this summer, and you would have had to have been living under a rock to not know where he’ll end up.

Apparently though, the biggest club in the world feels it shouldn’t give Liverpool the paltry sum that would cover the final few weeks of his deal at Anfield.

According to The Telegraph, the Bernabeu club has now asked the Reds to release Alexander-Arnold from his contract for free.

All so he can play in a tournament that Liverpool and the majority of the soccer world couldn’t care less about.

Despite approaching Liverpool last week shortly after Alexander-Arnold’s announcement, Real has seemingly decided it won’t make a financial offer, and simply hopes that the Reds will relent and let him join his new club for nothing, just in time for him to play in the group stages in the United States.

Put simply, Real Madrid can get in the bin?

Hopefully Liverpool and FSG don’t need me to tell them this, but there’s only one thing they should be doing with that request.

No matter how much it clearly thinks everything should just be handed to it on a silver platter, Real Madrid is in no such position to make that kind of demand

Alexander-Arnold is under contract at Liverpool until June 30 - if you want him before then, you pay for him.

It’s not up to Liverpool to help Real Madrid win a tournament it has absolutely no part in

If the biggest club in the world needs Alexander-Arnold so much to get past the likes of Al-Hilal, Pachuca and Red Bull Salzburg, then it should be coughing up for his services.

This insulting request tells you all you need to know about what Real thinks of the rest of the soccer world, and Liverpool should not give in to it.