Gary Neville slams ‘unforgivable’ FSG as Trent Alexander-Arnold set to depart Liverpool
Gary Neville has slammed Liverpool’s owners for allowing Trent Alexander-Arnold to leave Anfield while the contract situation with Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah continues to remain unclear
Gary Neville has slammed Liverpool’s owners for allowing Trent Alexander-Arnold to leave Anfield.
The England superstar is closing in on a move to Real Madrid this summer. Reports claim Alexander-Arnold had agreed a long-term deal worth around £250,000-a-week with the Spanish giants.
Alexander-Arnold is available on a free transfer after being allowed to run down his contract at Anfield and Neville believes it is “unforgivable” that Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have let this happen at the Premier League leaders.
Liverpool also face a battle to keep captain Virgil van Dijk and superstar forward Mohamed Salah at Anfield, whose contracts expire at the end of this season.
Speaking on Sky Bet’s ‘Stick to Football Podcast’, Neville said: “A couple of years ago around the time where Virgil van Dijk was going through a patch where he was teetering a little bit and Salah was there, they looked at them and thought, ‘we’ll wait with you,’. And the players are probably holding that against them now.
“With Trent, it’s unforgivable. Whether you’re going through a turbulence in the boardroom or not, if you’re the owner of the club and you look at Trent two years ago, even if you have disruption in your sporting department, you look at him and think, ‘we’ve got to sign him up, he’s one of our own.'”
Neville, meanwhile, reckons Alexander-Arnold will struggle to even get into Carlo Ancelotti’s team at the Bernabeu. He added: “I said that I thought he had to get more serious about his defending. I’ve said that constantly, or else it will cause him problems.
“I think it will cause him a problem at Real Madrid, because they have Federico Valverde, who is playing right-back currently, and Dani Carvajal when he’s back.
“He’s going to have some serious competition. They are brilliant players, and he’s going to find it tough there.”
