“After 20 years at the Liverpool Football Club, it is now time for me to confirm that I will leave at the end of the season. This is undoubtedly the most difficult decision that I have never made in my life. I know that many of you have wondered why or have been frustrated that I have not yet spoken of it, but I have always intended to focus fully on the best interests of the team, which were to secure number 20 (the 20th title, editor's note). This club was all my life, my whole universe, for 20 years. From the academy until today, the support and love that I have felt for everyone, inside and outside the club, will remain forever engraved in my memory. I will be forever grateful to you ”. At the start of the week, Trent Alexander-Arnold confirmed his upcoming departure from Liverpool at the end of the season.
Not necessarily a surprise, since for months already, the English and Spanish media have been unanimous in terms of the English right side: to leave to join Real Madrid this summer. A nice reinforcement for the Merengues, who recover a reference to his post for free, thus securing the replacement for Dani Carvajal. An arrival which is fully part of this prudent transfer window of the club of the Spanish capital, aimed at strengthening at a lower cost and no longer hesitating to go to this market for free players.
A nice check
But if we look at this file, Real Madrid will still have to take out a nice little check to ensure the services of the English international. As indicated in various Spanish media, including Marcathe traditional bonus at the signing of the English international is 20 million euros. A nice little jackpot for the player formed in the Reds.
For his part, Sport reveals that the Merengues will also have to pay 2 million euros so that Trent Alexander-Arnold can compete in the World Cup. His contract with the Reds expires at the end of June, and Real Madrid will therefore have to pay this sum so that the Liverpuldians release him before and that he can play this tournament which will start in mid-June. 22 million euros in total therefore, with a gross salary of 15 million euros per season, which would place him in the second level of the best paid players of the workforce, behind the stars but at the level of players like Courtois or Valverde. In just over a month, we will finally see it at work under the Madrid tunic.
