Trent Alexander-Arnold: The Premier League winner who nonetheless lives at residence and helps his dad and mom with the dishes

He could also be an area icon for Liverpool's largest staff, however he nonetheless lives together with his dad and mom, doing the dishes and studying habits that assist preserve his life "clear and wholesome."

Staying in a spot the place every thing is steady has helped him attain the heights he has, Alexander-Arnold explains.

"I all the time suppose younger gamers rush issues," he instructed Muricas News Senior Sport Analyst Darren Lewis. "You begin getting paid some cash and younger gamers all the time suppose the very first thing is to maneuver out, get a brand new automotive, stuff like that.

"After which the atmosphere is simply not the identical. You are dwelling at residence. You have received your dad and mom to maintain you in line and ensure issues are clear and tidy, the dishes aren't stacking up and you are going residence to a pleasant, clear atmosphere and issues like that.

"Whereas dwelling at residence (by yourself), breakfast and dinner, you simply suppose: 'I will try this later.' And then you definately are available in from coaching and then you definately're simply not in a clear, good atmosphere. So I've by no means felt a rush to depart residence. I've all the time had the proper messages.

"I've simply all the time loved having household round me. And so they've stored my ft on the bottom and pushed me to the degrees that I've received up to now. So I do not suppose there's any rush for me to decide."

Followers

Ever since he can bear in mind, Alexander-Arnold has been a Liverpool fan.

From dwelling simply 5 minutes away from the staff's coaching floor -- he remembers asking his mother to take him and his siblings to catch a glimpse of their "idols" by the cracks within the partitions on their days off from college -- to watching them on the weekends, he was in love with the membership from a younger age.

In celebration of Liverpool's dramatic Champions League win in 2005, Alexander-Arnold was one among 1000's who took to town's streets to welcome residence their heroes within the open-top bus parade.

Though he was a large fan, his personal introduction on the membership was one among pure luck. "It was like a half-term camp and the invite received despatched to my college and it was like: 'So who desires to go?'" he mentioned.

"And as you possibly can think about, everybody within the classroom put their hand up. We have now to choose names out of a hat, and fortuitously my title received picked out. I went alongside to it with a number of classmates and after -- I do not know the way lengthy it was -- I feel perhaps 10, quarter-hour, a scout went as much as my mother and mentioned: 'We wish you to start out bringing him up right here when you can?'"

And as he explains: "The remainder is historical past."

Since making his first-team debut in 2016, Alexander-Arnold has blossomed into probably the most dynamic fullbacks on the earth, terrorizing defenses from a deep place together with his exact crosses and correct through-balls.

In his 161 appearances within the Premier League, he is scored 10 targets, offered 45 assists and has a outstanding document of successful 114 video games and solely shedding 19 occasions.

However regardless of that document, such has been the brilliance of Manchester Metropolis underneath Pep Guardiola, Alexander-Arnold and Liverpool's trophy successful has been stymied.

Sure, they've received loads throughout his time within the first staff, however the Reds have been narrowly pipped to the Premier League title 4 occasions within the final 5 years -- twice by only one level.

The nip-and-tuck battle between the 2 English juggernauts has grow to be must-watch TV over the course of a season, with Alexander-Arnold admitting enjoying Man Metropolis is Liverpool's "largest sport of the season," regardless of historically having extra intense rivalries with Everton and Manchester United.

"I feel, traditionally, there's all the time going to be that stress and the rivalries with Everton and with United. However I feel proper now, it is for various causes. I feel there's all the time going to be a dislike with Liverpool and Everton and Man United," he mentioned.

"It is all the time going to be that regardless of the place both staff finishes within the league, each time it is happening, there are all the time very heated video games and each followers actually wish to win it probably the most. However I feel for various causes, now, Man Metropolis is the largest sport of season, the most effective staff in England, one among, if not the, finest staff on the earth as nicely.

"And, after all, they're the staff that set the tempo, set the benchmark for the remainder of the league. 4 leagues in 5 years is one thing that not many groups can say we have executed. So it is troublesome for us to look previous them and search for anyplace else as motivation. Our motivation is that if we keep in and round Metropolis, then over the past 4 or 5 years, you are in a superb place."

Season finale

Though final 12 months was one other profitable season for Liverpool and Alexander-Arnold personally -- with each FA Cup and League Cup winners medals added to the trophy cupboard -- it ended on a bitter notice.

The sport was delayed by 35 minutes as Liverpool followers struggled to get into the Stade de France, with the French police utilizing tear fuel on followers held in tightly packed areas.

After the match, regardless of the membership's account of occasions and particulars from the followers, Reds followers had been blamed partly for the disruption, with French Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin saying "that the disturbances triggered had been associated to an enormous inflow of spectators and an intensive variety of false tickets."

Senator Laurent Lafon, president of the Tradition, Training and Communication Fee, which co-authored the report, blamed the violent scenes on the remaining on "a collection of malfunctions that occurred in a reasonably obscure administrative and decision-making framework."

And for Alexander-Arnold and the remainder of his teammates, he admits the entire scenario was "unusual."

"The messages that had been broadcast by the stadium was late fan arrivals and stuff like that ... and also you imagine what you hear and see in these conditions," he mentioned.

"Then it wasn't till after the sport, clearly, we really came upon the reality and what occurred, what went on. However I feel the best way the followers have handled it -- when it occurred, throughout the sport and after the sport and the next months afterwards -- has been excellent.

"It is one thing us as gamers and as a membership, we're actually pleased with, the best way they've made positive the reality has come out. They've made positive that the followers usually are not simply getting blamed for stuff that they've executed."