Juventus legend Marco Tardelli would love Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold at the Serie A giants but knows the Premier League ‘phenomenon’ is out of their reach, speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport.
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When you factor in his ‘homegrown hero’ status, his age, the fact he’s an England international, the three years remaining on his contract and his sheer quality, you’re perhaps looking at a £200 million footballer.
This is all hypothetical of course.
And even if Juventus found a way to stump up a world-record transfer fee for arguably the greatest attacking footballer of his generation, you get the feeling that Jurgen Klopp would rather tattoo ‘MUFC4Ever’ on own his forehead than consider cashing in on Alexander-Arnold.
“The players I like cannot be bought,” says Tardelli, a five-time Serie A champion and 1982 World Cup winner.
“If you want a name (that I’d like to see at Juventus), that’s fine: Alexander-Arnold. What a phenomenon.”
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Alexander-Arnold has provided another 18 assists in all competitions this season for a Liverpool side who, approaching mid-May, could still end a remarkable campaign with four trophies and a place in history under their belts.
2021/22 is already the most prolific season of Alexander-Arnold’s career where assists are concerned. Muster six more between now and the night of May 28 – when Liverpool meet Real Madrid in the Champions League final in Paris – and a 23-year-old from West Derby will draw level with the legendary Kenny Dalglish for the most assists in a single Liverpool season, a record the Scot set all the way back in 1985.
“Trent is really important for us. Not just with the assists but in the game, when he has the ball he is really important,” Anfield team-mate Fabinho said recently, via talkSPORT.
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“Sometimes we think he doesn’t have a solution and he always finds an important pass and, of course, in the last part of the pitch he can always change the game.
“When I see Trent play, it is really hard to find a right-back who plays like this. One who looks more like a number eight or a number 10 than a right-back.
“I hope he will continue playing at a high level. Because he can be one of the best right-backs in history, maybe the best.”
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