Trent Alexander-Arnold's chances of facing Liverpool updated as Real Madrid suffer fresh injury blow
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Liverpool supporters are still not over the way Trent Alexander-Arnold ran down his contract to leave for Real Madrid at the end of last season.
The Scouser may have left his boyhood club as a champion, but he did not go with the well wishes of many fans.
Since leaving Liverpool, Alexander-Arnold has struggled to get going at Real Madrid.
After sustaining an injury during the Club World Cup, the right-back came back into Xabi Alonso’s team for the start of La Liga.
However, club captain Dani Carvajal soon replaced Alexander-Arnold in the starting XI, with Alonso seemingly set to rotate between the two players.
Then, disaster struck for the Liverpool academy graduate.
Alexander-Arnold sustained an issue in the Champions League earlier this month, throwing his participation for a return to Anfield in November into doubt.
That would make him ready to face Liverpool on November 4th.
However, Alexander-Arnold’s recovery is placed at eight weeks from picking up his own problem against Marseille on September 16th.
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While that would technically rule him out of his return to Anfield, TNT Sports report on Sunday that Alexander-Arnold is expected to be ready.
“Trent Alexander-Arnold is expected to return from injury in time for Real Madrid’s trip to Anfield in November,” the outlet reports on X.
“The right-back will be sidelined for matches against Kairat Almaty, Villarreal, Juventus and Barcelona.”
It will be fascinating to watch Alexander-Arnold play at Anfield if he is indeed ready to face them with Real.
The reception he gets is likely to be incredibly hostile.
But behind that hostility, most Liverpool fans were upset with their former No.
He showed that across almost a decade in the Liverpool first team and the Reds are a worse team without him.
As Saturday’s defeat against Crystal Palace highlighted once again, neither Conor Bradley nor Jeremie Frimpong are at Alexander-Arnold’s level right now.
If he does come back to Merseyside in six weeks’ time, expect him to show that as Liverpool fans get another glimpse of what they’ve lost.