At 23, he is the youngest ever player in English football to win every major honour. He’s also Liverpool’s most important creative threat.
Yet the narrative is still that Trent Alexander-Arnold can’t defend. It is bizarre, to the point of being perverse, given that, y’know, he’s amongst the greatest in his position this country has ever seen.
If he were Brazilian, he’d be bracketed with Roberto Carlos… his wand of a right foot, so evident here at Wembley, a thing of sheer, unadulterated beauty.
