Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contract talks stalling with Liverpool reluctant to offer higher wages than two top stars

CONTRACT talks with Trent Alexander-Arnold are stalling — arsenic Liverpool are reluctant to connection him higher wages than Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk.

The Reds are negotiating with each 3 stars astir extending deals that expire adjacent summer, which has made matters analyzable astatine Anfield.

At 26, Alexander-Arnold is younger than some Salah, 32, and Van Dijk, 33, and would person a acold higher resale worth than his team-mates if helium commits his future.

Yet Liverpool are alert that offering the right-back the biggest woody of the 3 could origin ructions, peculiarly halfway done the season.

Liverpool person made respective offers to amended Alexander- Arnold’s £180,000-a-week woody amid beardown involvement from Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain but are yet to scope agreement.

The England defender has not made a determination connected his aboriginal contempt claims successful a Spanish paper that Liverpool “already cognize that helium volition not renew”.

While helium has not asked for parity with Van Dijk and Salah, who are presently connected £220,000 and £350,000 a week respectively, helium could gain much than that astatine some PSG and Real.

The Spanish nine successful peculiar person go experts astatine offering immense wages and signing-on fees to players whose existing contracts are moving down.

And Alexander-Arnold has been a long-standing people for Real, starring to interest astatine Anfield that helium is the slightest apt of their prima trio to motion a caller deal.

Van Dijk would similar to enactment astatine Liverpool but is locked successful a stand-off implicit the magnitude of declaration the nine volition connection him.

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Salah’s aboriginal depends connected whether the Reds will conscionable his wage demands.

And helium erstwhile again hinted helium whitethorn discontinue Anfield.

The Egyptian star, 32, cryptically posted connected societal media: “No substance what happens, I volition ne'er hide what scoring astatine Anfield feels like.”