Liverpool are claimed to have provided Trent Alexander-Arnold a big pay improve in an try to tie him right down to a brand new long-term contract.
Alexander-Arnold’s future is among the greatest considerations amongst Liverpool followers at current, with Actual Madrid making a bid to signal the right-back this month.
Whereas Liverpool turned down their provide, believed to be within the area of £15 million, the fact is that Alexander-Arnold can now legally talk about phrases over a free switch in the summertime.
That provides stress to contract talks between the participant and his present membership, with contact ongoing however no progress made because it stands.
Nevertheless, the Mirror‘s John Richardson now claims that Liverpool have provided their vice-captain a brand new five-year contract value £300,000 per week.
His present wage is alleged to be round £180,000 per week and solely Mohamed Salah – on a primary £350,000 every week – earns upwards of £300,000 per week at current.
It’s claimed that Actual Madrid would provide related phrases, with it held up as a straight resolution between staying at his boyhood membership or becoming a member of arguably the largest facet exterior of England.
“There have been no calls for from Alexander-Arnold to be handed the captaincy,” Richardson writes, with Alexander-Arnold mentioned to have accepted he could be “the pure successor to Virgil van Dijk.”
Whether or not this report is to be believed is unclear, although Liverpool are identified to have been in ongoing negotiations with their No. 66 and his representatives.
Nevertheless, Arne Slot is definitely nonetheless hopeful of retaining his first-choice right-back, utilizing the instance of Steven Gerrard turning down Actual to make his level.
“I feel there was one participant [in the past] they’d have actually cherished to have however he didn’t come,” he informed journalists together with the Liverpool Echo‘s Theo Squires.
“You understand him higher than me. So it has occurred.”
However there stays an actual concern that Alexander-Arnold will depart on the finish of the season, with Slot purely targeted on the now slightly than any ‘ifs’.
“These are all ‘if, if if’. My reply is that he’s with us and his full focus is with us,” the pinnacle coach defined.
“That is what you noticed within the West Ham recreation and the video games earlier than.
“He’s in virtually everybody’s Group of the Yr for the primary half of the season. That exhibits how a lot he’s right here in the mean time.
“That’s the one reply I may give you in the mean time as a result of there’s no if.”
