Neville in hysterics as Carragher moots £10m exit fee for Liverpool player
Arne Slot is ready to start preparing for next season, looking at who he can add to his Liverpool squad over the summer transfer window to strengthen.
The Reds have done well to keep hold of key men in Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, despite the pair reaching the end of their contracts this summer.
One man who is not staying put on Merseyside, though, is Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The right-back confirmed he would be leaving Anfield at the end of his contract, and is expected to move to Real Madrid in the summer.
Jamie Carragher moots Alexander-Arnold fee
Although Alexander-Arnold is a Liverpool boy, his impending exit has rubbed most supporters up the wrong way.
With the defender’s contract expiring at the end of the campaign, his departure has left Liverpool with no opportunity to cash in and get a transfer fee for the player.
However, there is one way that the Reds could benefit financially and that is if Real Madrid want to gain the 26-year-old’s services before the Club World Cup, so he can play in the competition.
Although the fee would be nowhere near what Liverpool would be ready to accept for a transfer, earning some money could be a slight silver lining.
Gary Neville asked Jamie Carragher live on Sky Sports Premier League (11 May) how much he would be prepared to accept to let Alexander-Arnold leave for the Club World Cup.
Carragher responded by saying: “I think if it was about five or 10 million quid…”
Neville could not respond with anything but a laugh, as he and Micah Richards were left in stitches by the comment.
Liverpool should cash in on Alexander-Arnold
The reaction towards Alexander-Arnold since he announced his exit from Anfield has been mixed, but it doesn’t look as though he will be getting the most minutes between now and the end of the season.
| Appearances | Goals | Assists |
| 31 | 3 | 6 |
With that in mind, you have to question why Liverpool wouldn’t take any money they could for his services this summer, because any fee is better than none.
Whether it will go up quite as far as Carragher would like it to is yet to be seen, as there is little incentive for Real Madrid to pay so much for one tournament when they could just wait to have him for free.
That being said, the competition is generating plenty of money and in the grand scheme of that, £10m is not the biggest amount.
Either way, the relationship between Liverpool and their boyhood supporter is set to come to an end at the conclusion of the campaign, so the Reds need to turn their attention to progression, something they can do by cashing in.