Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold remains fully “committed” to the club and will play against Manchester United on Sunday, Liverpool manager Arne Slott has said.
Spanish giants Real Madrid are said to be interested in signing the England full-back who could leave Anfield on a free transfer this summer.
The latest reports suggest that Real Madrid are keen on a move this month, but Slott has no concerns about his player's mentality in the second half of the Premier League season after speaking to him.
“I completely understand the question and why it was asked, but you already know the answer: These conversations I never share, not about Trent, not about any others, about what I talk to them about,” he said.
“It was a conversation like many others, me and Trent, so let's leave it at that.
Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold have been shortlisted for the Premier League Player of the Month award for December 👏🔴
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“I can tell you he's going to play on Sunday and I'm hoping he can do the same performance he did in the last half of the year, because everyone saw how great the first half of the season was, how great he was here, how good he was here. He wants to win here.
“I see him on the training field every day and he is working hard. He is fully committed to us and will play on Sunday.
“If it would destabilize the players at Liverpool if other people were talking about them, then we would really have a problem because if you play at one of the biggest clubs in the world, everyone is always – for 12 months – talking about you, and sometimes sometimes his relationship with other clubs.
“It happens too many times to our players so if it destabilizes them then we're really going to have a problem, not just now but in the last six months because there's been some conversations about our players in the last six months and I don't do that.” “I don’t think it has destabilized them at all.”
Like Alexander-Arnold, key players Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are also out of contract at the end of the season.
