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And if one way of augmenting it was to become a lifer, to join Ian Callaghan, Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard in Anfield’s 700 club, it may be the vision that rendered him a unique right-back that, while nothing is formalised yet, will take him to Real Madrid.

Alexander-Arnold has often looked long, launching some extraordinary passes over vast distances.

For years, he has had Anfield in the foreground, but spotted the Bernabeu in the distance.