NewsLiverpool's Greatest - No.28: Trent Alexander-Arnold
Years: 2016-2025
Appearances: 354
Goals: 23
Trophies: Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), FIFA Club World Cup (2019), Premier League (2019-20, 2024-25), League Cup (2022, 2024), FA Cup (2022)
Trent Alexander-Arnold emerged through the Liverpool Academy and used his unique talents to win the biggest honours with his boyhood club.
Having once peered through the walls at Melwood at Reds players as a child, the Scouser grew up to become one – and with great success too.
Initially a midfielder, a positional switch to right-back accelerated Alexander-Arnold from the club’s youth set-up into contention for the first team.
That swift journey was underpinned by a wide skillset too; the No.66 was nominally a defender but licensed to be more of a playmaker from the flank, using his sublime passing and crossing to create.
A remarkable tally of 86 assists in all competitions for Liverpool was complemented by 23 goals, with Alexander-Arnold also a confident finisher and set-piece taker.
His senior debut under Jürgen Klopp came in October 2016 and by the following season – when still a teenager – he had seized the shirt at right-back.
Champions League heartbreak in Kyiv at the end of 2017-18 only made Alexander-Arnold and his teammates even more determined to write their names into history.
And they did so in the next campaign, returning to the showpiece and winning it, alongside 97 points and just one defeat while being pipped to the Premier League title.
After Alexander-Arnold’s ‘corner taken quickly’ for Divock Origi sealed the 4-0 semi-final comeback over Barcelona, a 2-0 defeat of Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid put European Cup No.6 on the LFC honours list.
UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup successes followed as Klopp’s heavy-pressing machine went into overdrive.
Alexander-Arnold played in all 38 league games, scored four times and recorded 13 assists as part of the 2019-20 title-winning squad – a key figure in ending the Reds’ 30-year wait for a championship.
“This is the one we all wanted as fans, as players, as a club,” he said when the Premier League trophy was lifted behind closed doors in July 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’d swap every medal I’ve got just to have this one round my neck.”
He was subsequently named PFA Young Player of the Year and flourished as the seasons rolled on, racking up a personal-best 18 assists across all competitions in 2021-22 amid a quadruple attempt that yielded Carabao Cup and FA Cup joy.
Alexander-Arnold was appointed vice-captain to Virgil van Dijk ahead of 2023-24, before being part of another Reds title triumph in 2024-25.
There were 33 league appearances for the defender as Arne Slot’s debut campaign as head coach concluded with Liverpool crowned England’s champions again – this time with fans present to celebrate inside Anfield.
Winning the Premier League for a second time was his final act at the club, as he then chose to move to Real Madrid.
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