Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold remains fully “committed” to the club and will play against Manchester United on Sunday, says manager Arne Slot.
Spanish giants Real Madrid are reportedly interested in signing the England full-back – who can leave Anfield on a free transfer this summer.
The latest reports suggest Real are keen on a move this month but Slot has no concerns with his player’s mindset going into the second half of the Premier League season after speaking to him.
He said: “I completely understand the question and why you ask it, but you already know the answer: these conversations I have never shared, not about Trent, not about any others, about what I talk to them about.
“It was a conversation as many others we had, me and Trent, so let’s leave it at that.
Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold have both been shortlisted for Premier League Player of the Month in December 👏🔴
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) January 2, 2025
“I can tell you he is playing on Sunday and hopefully he brings the same performances as he brought in for the last half-year, because everybody saw how great a first half of the season he had, how much he is here, how much he wants to win here.
“I see him on the training ground every day working his ass off. He is fully committed to us and he will play on Sunday.
“If it would destabilise players at Liverpool if other people talk about them, then we would really have a problem because if you play at one of the biggest clubs in the world everybody is always – for 12 months long – talking about you, sometimes in relation to other clubs.
“That happens so many times for our players, so if that destabilises them then we really would have had a problem, not only now but in the last six months because there were some talks about our players in the last six months and I don’t think it destabilised 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.
