Michael Owen gives honest opinion on Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool exit
- mrwedwards
- May 8
- 2 min read
Michael Owen believes Liverpool supporters should bear no grudge towards Trent Alexander-Arnold
Owen has wished the full-back well as he prepares to leave the club at the end of the season. The 26-year-old is expected to follow in the former striker's footsteps and sign for Real Madrid.
Knowing that the task of becoming Premier League champions was complete, Alexander-Arnold confirmed 'easily the hardest decision of his life' when telling Liverpool supporters that he would be leaving his boyhood club.
It is one that simply must be accepted by his club and teammates, but one that has split the opinions of pundits and an entire fanbase
Owen opened up on his thoughts about Alexander-Arnold's impending departure
Owen said:
"Who can criticise him, really? I know there will be one or two people that will but he's been there, seen it, done it.
"Won absolutely everything the game has got to offer for Liverpool.
“If he wants to go and try something new for his family, for him, just to do something different in his life, I've got no problem.
"It's different. That's the beauty of it.
"You go to a different country. It's different food, different language, different weather. It's different football, new stadium, it's in a white kit and not red.
Owen similarly came through the Liverpool academy to become an adored member of the senior team before joining Madrid for a fee of £8m plus midfielder Antonio Nunez in 2004.
Owen
"It's easy for me to say and a lot fans will be screaming at the tele,"
"But if I was a Liverpool fan I would be saying: 'Thank you very much for all your service, you've been incredible, you've won everything. Thank you and good luck, we wish you well'.
"Of course that's what I think and we're talking football, it's different to anything else.
"If you get a promotion, if you could do in your [position], everybody says 'well done, Matt (Chapman, his interviewer), congratulations'.
"But if it's football, no, you're a traitor and this and that and the other, which is quite sad because he's done everything."
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