It seems that Real Madrid aren’t yet ready to take no for an answer when it comes to their pursuit of Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The Liverpool vice-captain has been strongly linked with a move to the Bernabeu throughout the past year, with his contract at Anfield expiring in four months’ time and no imminent sign of a new deal being struck.
The Champions League holders tried their luck with a £20m offer at the beginning of January but were swiftly rebuffed by the Reds, although the possibility of snapping him up on a free transfer grows more plausible by the week until his situation on Merseyside is resolved.
Real Madrid set to adopt ‘all or nothing’ approach in Trent pursuit
In an article for The Telegraph on Wednesday, Mike McGrath outlined why Real Madrid’s prospects of eventually signing Trent are ‘favourable’, with five reasons cited as to why Los Blancos are confident of getting their man.
Chief among those is the club’s ‘all or nothing’ policy, whereby they more often than not secure their desired target either by spending big (such as the £115m acquisition of Jude Bellingham) or securing astute free transfers (e.g. Kylian Mbappe and David Alaba).
There’s also a feeling at the Bernabeu that almost every player in the world would jump at the chance to play for Carlo Ancelotti’s side, while the absence of a transfer fee gives them greater scope to offer an attractive salary, signing-on bonuses and add-ons which’d help to get a deal over the line.
Furthermore, Trent has yet to give any public indication that he’d rather remain at Liverpool, and the long-term injury to Dani Carvajal means that the 26-year-old would go straight into Real Madrid’s line-up if they were to sign him.
