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Trent Alexander-Arnold’s exit: How Liverpool lost greatest home-grown talent since Steven Gerrard

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Defender grew twitchy there was no progress on contract talks with Liverpool .

Liverpool were preoccupied with rebuilding the midfield, and there may have been a misplaced assumption at the very top of the club that the boyhood Liverpudlian would re-sign when the first offer materialised, as on previous occasions.

Alexander-Arnold felt his situation was being parked for a later, as yet unspecified date, and it was not entirely clear who would be negotiating on the club’s behalf.

Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool for Real Madrid on a free transfer in January .

Some Liverpool fans reacted negatively to the move, as they did when Steve McManaman made the same Bosman move at the end of 1998-99 season .

The fact he would be leaving for free rankled, the argument that he did not cost Liverpool a penny in a transfer fee of no consequence.

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