Liverpool legend, John Aldridge has warned Trent Alexander-Arnold of the pressure he will experience at Real Madrid, describing how the Spanish media may “annihilate” him.
After the right-back reaffirmed his intention to leave Anfield at the end of the current campaign, a move to the Bernabeu appears to be imminent.
With the intention of having Alexander-Arnold play in the Club World Cup this summer, Real have already contacted Liverpool about signing him early.
Having also left Merseyside for Spain when he joined Real Sociedad in 1989, former Liverpool striker Aldridge is well aware of the strain Alexander-Arnold would be under.
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“I left Liverpool for different reasons,” Aldridge wrote in his column for the Liverpool Echo.
“I wanted a three-year contract and Kenny Dalglish said I wasn’t going to play that year. It was the last year of my contract and he was going to play with Peter Beardsley and Ian Rush.
“Had to leave, I was gutted. I was absolutely sick. But I had to make the most of it, which I did. And I loved it in Spain.
“Trent’s now going the other way, choosing to go. It’s going to be massively affluent for him, his family, his agents. He’s making a new life for himself, he might stay there, he might live there for the rest of his life.
“But it will be interesting to see how he gets on there. I played in Spain for a couple of years. Every day, football papers come out. One bad game you’re going to get absolutely annihilated. It’s brutal.”
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