Strap yourselves in, the ‘Trent Alexander-Arnold should be a midfielder’ bandwagon is gathering speed and won’t be slowing down anytime soon.
Ever since the right-back first broke into the Liverpool team back in 2016/17, there has been an on/off debate regarding his long-term position. As good as the 24-year-old is on the ball, being one of English football’s most naturally gifted players, there has always been excessive scrutiny regarding his defensive credentials.
As a result, onlookers have regularly insisted that the Reds continue to play Alexander-Arnold in the wrong position by sticking with him at right-back as opposed to fielding him in midfield. When England manager Gareth Southgate first flirted with the notion of playing the defender further forward, fielding him in midfield for 45 minutes against Andorra in a 4-0 win back in September 2021, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp wasted no time in sharing his disdain for such a decision.
