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View image in fullscreen‘Trent’ brings fluency and ‘impeccable’ Spanish to grand Real Madrid unveiling

Trent Alexander-Arnold impressed with his Spanish at unveiling and maintains Real are the only club he would have left Liverpool for

Well, that was unexpected.

Trent Alexander-Arnold took out the earpiece, made his way to the stage at Real Madrid’s training ground and said: “Buenas tardes, a todos”: Good afternoon, everyone.



But then he delivered the next line in Spanish too, then the one after that, and the one after that.

He kept going until he got to the end of his speech, when he delivered the one line everyone invariably does on the day they are presented here: “Hala Madrid!” It wasn’t long – one minute and one second, in all – but it was long enough to win them over already.

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“I think it surprised a lot of people,” Alexander-Arnold said when he had made his way over to the press room.

To play for Real Madrid is a fantastic honour, an achievement in itself.”

“Ten or 11 years ago, this is not something you dream of because it is just out of reach: there’s only a select handful that get a chance to be part of this,” Alexander-Arnold added, but it had become real.

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“It was not a question of where to go; it was whether or not to go,” he said.

“I knew that if I was ever to leave Liverpool, it would only be to Real Madrid.

A lot of people think he played a huge part in me coming here but the club speaks for itself.”

“I grew up a Liverpool fan watching Istanbul [Liverpool’s 2005 Champions League triumph] and now [Alonso] is a manager and doing incredible things,” Alexander-Arnold said.