Jamie Carragher slams Trent Alexander-Arnold's 'strange' claim in Liverpool rant

Liverpool fable Jamie Carragher believes Trent Alexander-Arnold is acceptable to permission the nine astatine the extremity of the play and articulation Real Madrid aft comments helium made astir the Ballon d'Or

Jamie Carragher has branded Trent Alexander-Arnold's assertion helium would rather triumph the Ballon d'Or than the World Cup oregon different Champions League "strange".

Carragher besides suggested it is simply a motion that the Liverpool prima is plotting a determination to Real Madrid connected a escaped transportation erstwhile his contract expires astatine the extremity of the season. In an interrogation with Sky Sports, Alexander-Arnold was asked to take betwixt winning different Champions League title, winning a trophy with England, becoming Liverpool skipper oregon winning the Ballon d'Or.

"Winning a World Cup with England – that would beryllium immense and alteration the game, but I'd accidental triumph a Ballon d'Or, due to the fact that I judge I can," Alexander-Arnold replied. "I privation to beryllium the archetypal full-back to ever bash it.

"It's lone the greeting aft you discontinue that you're capable to look astatine yourself successful the reflector and accidental you've fixed it everything you person got. It doesn't substance however galore trophies you triumph oregon medals you person got, it matters astir what you person fixed to the crippled and if you scope your afloat potential.

"I've heard imaginable being thrown astir with my sanction since the property of six. If you scope that imaginable and you cognize you person and you've fixed everything to maximise that imaginable and beryllium the subordinate you judge you tin be, which is 1 of the champion ever, past you'll beryllium happy.

"It doesn't substance however galore trophies you win, I guess. Do I person the imaginable to beryllium that? For sure. I judge it. Some radical whitethorn telephone maine deluded but I judge I can."

And erstwhile asked astir Alexander-Arnold's comments aft Liverpool's 2-2 gully with Arsenal, Carragher told Sky Sports: "He tin effort and triumph the Ballon d'Or, there's thing incorrect with ambition, but my archetypal thought erstwhile I work that was 'you're not winning the Ballon d'Or arsenic a right-back for Liverpool'.

"Ballon d'Or winners usually play for Real Madrid oregon Barcelona. That's wherever the champion players successful the world go. If that's his eventual ambition, I deliberation helium was asked astir winning the Champions League, the World Cup oregon the Ballon d'Or.

"And helium chose the Ballon d'Or, which I deliberation is simply a spot unusual oregon bizarre. I deliberation you would ever prime the World Cup oregon the Champions League, it's a squad game, but helium has got monolithic ambition and wherefore not?

"You lone get 1 career. He is simply a unsocial full-back, he's perfectly astonishing and got Liverpool backmost into the crippled contiguous with the pass. But the archetypal happening that came to maine erstwhile I work that interrogation is that I deliberation helium is going to Real Madrid."

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