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“Why would I think about leaving?” – Trent Alexander-Arnold can imagine spending entire career at Liverpool

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold says he can envisage seeing out his career at Anfield.

The defender was enjoying another superb season before the Premier League was suspended until April 30 at the earliest due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I can imagine that,” he told GQ when asked if he might spend the rest of his playing days at Liverpool.

“[Playing abroad] is not something I’ve ever really thought about. I’ve always loved Liverpool. I’ve always supported them. I’ve always played for them. So, I’ve never had that reason to think about it.

“Yeah, still now, I wouldn’t sit there in my room and daydream about playing somewhere else. Right now, I’m a Liverpool player. I love the club more than anything. I love everything about it. I love the fans, the people. I love the city. So, no, why would I think about that?”

“It’s something I’m massively proud of, something I think comes with responsibility,” he added. “I don’t take it for granted, because I know it’s so hard to do it.

“It’s probably everyone in the stadium’s dream to be that person who’s in the team who’s from the actual city that they’re from and to be able to do that having been a fan growing up.

“I think they understand what the club is about, the history, this tradition, the values of the club. I grew up with it. I understood it from an early age. I was taught it throughout my childhood, whereas they weren’t.”

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Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).