Twelve months ago, with the frustration of a long, hard and ultimately underwhelming season burning inside him, Trent Alexander-Arnold picked up his phone and opened up the Twitter app.
Accompanied by a picture of himself and Curtis Jones on the post-season Anfield lap of honour, following an unlikely third-place Premier League finish on the final day of a taxing campaign, Alexander-Arnold outlined his and his team-mates' intent for the following year.
He tweeted: "Next year we’re coming back for trophies. Thank you for the support 'til the very end Reds. We always find a way."
To many at the time, with Jurgen Klopp's squad still mired in something of a defensive injury crisis - and without Ibrahima Konate or Luis Diaz on board - it was viewed as a message sent in more hope than expectation.
After all, no player can guarantee success, however great they are, but the desire to at least go for it was non-negotiable to Alexander-Arnold. Nearly a year to the day since he fired off that social media warning, he stands, surely, as the youngest player to have ever lifted the League Cup, FA Cup, Premier League, Champions League and Club World Cup.
With a domestic cup double now also safely stashed into a burgeoning medal collection, the 23-year-old was certainly not kidding when he said he was "coming back for trophies".
"It feels special to be honest," Alexander-Arnold said at Wembley after winning the FA Cup on Saturday. "Growing up you never think you will win all these trophies. You see legendary players who do that and you think it is unbelievable.
"To be able to say I have done that at such a young age is a dream come true and it is motivation to go on and carry on winning more trophies. Hopefully there are a lot more trophies to come. The motivation is to win them all again and keep winning and keep adding to the trophy cabinet."
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The West Derby-born defender does not turn 24 until October but has been established for some time as the creative fulcrum in a Liverpool side who many champion as one of the finest ever at Anfield.
Saturday's FA Cup final was the England international's 224th senior appearance and should he continue at this pace - the penalty shootout win over Chelsea was his 45th of the season - Alexander-Arnold could yet trouble the 737-game record haul of Jamie Carragher in the Premier League era, even if the 857 total of outright record holder Ian Callaghan is likely out of reach.
A new contract that was signed last summer reflected his growing importance by seeing him become one of the top earners in a squad that is jam-packed with elite-level quality and his influence in the dressing room is understood to have grown steadily as he has become a more senior figure too.
At just 23, Alexander-Arnold is already thinking about what his legacy within the game will be as he eyes his third Champions League final in Paris later this month against Real Madrid.
He adds: "Days like this help me. I think it comes from within and thinking about what I want my legacy to be and where I think my potential is as a player. The sky is the limit really so I want to carry on and push on and never be satisfied. I will keep my head down, try and win more trophies and hopefully at the end of my career I can be proud of what I have done.
"Five years ago if anyone had told me I would achieve what I have achieved I don’t know what I would have said to be honest," he says. "It is very special and, hopefully, in five more years I am in an even better place than I am now.
"It has not gone too bad so far. Five or ten years’ time and we will hopefully be talking about bigger and better things."
