Man Utd legend labels Liverpool fans treatment of Trent Alexander-Arnold ‘disgusting’

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Trent Alexander-Arnold was met with boos as he returned to Anfield with Real Madrid (Picture: Getty Images) Peter Schmeichel finds it annoying and disgusting that Liverpool fans would boo Trent Alexander-Arnold as the Real Madrid star returns to his former club. That did not go down well at all with some Liverpool fans, fuming that a player who came through the club’s academy to star in the first team would run down his contract and depart for no transfer fee.

He should be welcomed back as a hero. ‘Even to have the idea that he would have a bad reception, I think that’s bad.’ Alexander-Arnold has been out with injury so started on the bench (Picture: Getty Images) Schmeichel was stood alongside Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher when he made those comments and the former Reds defender strongly disagreed with his sentiment. ‘I don’t agree with what you’ve said there. Alexander-Arnold won the Premier League title with Liverpool last season (Picture: Getty Images) ‘OK, it’s his career, he gets one career, he’s a young man, he’s been brilliantly successful at the club.

But what he said since he got in the team, if that were to be true and Liverpool is the only team for him, he wants to be a captain and legend here, you don’t leave when you just won the league title and have an opportunity to go and win more trophies with your club. ‘Then you join a club that’s beaten you twice in a Champions League final. They’re the club you want to compete with to maybe win more Champions League finals. ‘I totally understand the reaction of the supporters.’ Alexander-Arnold Premier League stats Apps: 259 Goals: 18 Assists: 64 Carragher felt the seeds of discontent were being sewn before Alexander-Arnold even left Liverpool as he made no comment on his future, while Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk were more vocal about their contract situations before signing new deals at the end of last season. ‘A lot of it is that they feel they have been hoodwinked by Trent throughout the process of him being at the club,’ continued Carragher. ‘And also in the last year, where he hasn’t done any media interviews and not got involved in anything where there was talk around him, Salah and Van Dijk. ‘Salah and Van Dijk were coming out in the press saying they wanted to stay.