Arne Slot has admitted that it would have been “tough” for Trent Alexander-Arnold to lose upon his return to Liverpool.

There was already plenty of hostility built up ahead of the tie, but the chorus of boos that emerged from Anfield when Alexander-Arnold was brought on by Xabi Alonso was deafening.

Everybody knew that the Englishman was going to get plenty of grief, but Jude Bellingham thinks that the Reds’ fans were just doing it to put Alexander-Arnold off rather than for his actions.

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When he was brought into the game, he hardly had a touch of the ball, and although most of Liverpool’s players welcomed him with open arms, it was clear that the fans were never going to do that.

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Slot helped bring out the best in the 27-year-old last season, with the Dutchman now making an admission about the right-back.

There’s no way that Alexander-Arnold would ever be allowed to return to Anfield as a Liverpool player ever again.

Rather than agreeing to an extension to his deal to at least give his boyhood club some money for his transfer, the Englishman chose to...