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All that’s left for Trent Alexander-Arnold is to take in a short farewell tour before bidding farewell to his boyhood club.

After months of silence, the right-back has finally confirmed what most of us already knew anyway.

He won’t be staying, and although he hasn’t confirmed it himself yet, a move to Real Madrid is surely the next step.



“Go somewhere else, to Barcelona, to Bayern Munich, to Real Madrid, and you will be just another player.

Countless players have already been drawn to the bright lights of Madrid, and plenty more will follow in Alexander-Arnold’s footsteps.

But by joining Real, he risks becoming what he clearly never wanted to be - just another player.

It’s a club already littered with huge names.

The obvious conclusion to reach is that, by joining a club like Real, which is seemingly guaranteed to win the biggest trophies, his chances of realizing that dream will be drastically increased

And that’s before you take into account the damage that Real’s tantrum over Vinicius not winning last year might have done.

For a player like Alexander-Arnold, his best chance of winning the Ballon d’Or perhaps lies in competing against a team like Real, not with them