It’s safe to say that Liverpool fans will have very little care for the ongoing Club World Cup in the United States of America. In fact, not many football fans in general have tuned in for proceedings just yet.
Chelsea’s opening game with LAFC was played in front of a minuscule crowd considering how big the stadium actually was.
Despite that, there are some talking points on the pitch, none more so than Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Real Madrid got their campaign underway against Saudi side Al Hilal on Wednesday and could only manage a 1-1 draw. Perhaps the gap to Saudi’s top sides isn’t as big as we may think.
How the media world reacted to Trent’s debut
It doesn’t feel like long ago now that Alexander-Arnold announced to the fanbase that he’d be leaving his boyhood club behind in favour of the Spanish capital, Madrid.
After he let it be know that he’d be departing; the right-back was understandably greeted with a chorus of boos. For one of the club’s most infamous academy graduates, this was surprising.
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Yet, once all was said and done, the right-back didn’t actually end up leaving on a free transfer.
Before the aforementioned Club World Cup got underway, there was a frenzy in the transfer market as a plethora of teams tried to get early deals over the line.
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