Neither Virgil van Dijk nor Mohamed Salah – who has made repeated claims in interviews that he’s not near agreeing a brand new take care of Liverpool and expects to go away in the summertime – have been focused with derision or abuse throughout matches.
The truth that Alexander-Arnold was born and raised in Liverpool appears key to that. Followers of all golf equipment typically consider that they’ve a larger proper to possession over the careers of native gamers, and that they’re owed larger loyalty by “one among our personal”.
Roberts added: “Folks assume: ‘You’ve got grown up as a scouser, a Liverpool fan, you have lived our dream, and subsequently how may you probably contemplate going wherever else?’ However I feel sure, he was a fan as soon as, and now he is knowledgeable sportsman. We have got to understand that truth, and I do not assume folks do. We simply take a look at it from our perspective and assume we might by no means go away.
“If you happen to’ve given 20 years to the identical membership, you are nicely inside your rights to say you fancy one thing else since you solely stay as soon as. It is all a bit mad.
“When it is the opposite method round, when a membership simply says ‘see you’ to a participant, we do not actually take into consideration that a lot, will we?”
Talking on Sky Sports activities, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher stated: “I’ve continually defended him [Alexander-Arnold]. The lad got here for nothing and if he leaves for nothing, there must be no criticism for that.
“My solely drawback with Trent, if he leaves… it is not anger or upset with him, it is disappointment… My solely disappointment is Trent is a neighborhood lad, Liverpool fan. Equalling Manchester United in league titles, successful a European Cup… he may very well be captain in two or three years and the man who lifts these trophies.
“Liverpool supporters are upset. That is the place my disappointment comes from.”
