Fabrizio Romano confirms Liverpool stance on Trent Alexander-Arnold

Trent Alexander-Arnold's exit last season was expected.

When the Englishman failed to sign a new deal after the January transfer window slammed shut, fans sort of accepted that it was the end of his time at L4.

Liverpool wanted to keep hold of their right-back with Richard Hughes making multiple offers to try and retain his services.

However, he chose against cementing his legacy as a Liverpool legend and instead chose to try and make his mark at Real Madrid.

One of the reasons behind this was so that he could start challenging for the Ballon D'Or but, since Federico Valverde is now being chosen over him at right-back, that clearly hasn't worked out as he'd have wanted it to.

His lack of appearances have caused many rumours to start emerging with a return to Liverpool even being discussed.

Fabrizio Romano confirms there has been no contact between Liverpool and Trent Alexander-Arnold

If Alexander-Arnold chose to stay at Liverpool, he'd still probably be one of the first names on their team sheet.

His style of play was perfectly suited to the Reds and, since Andoni Iraola likes his full-backs to attack, he'd have fit straight into the Spaniard's plans as well.

Instead, he left Arne Slot without a natural right-back for most of the season thanks to the many injuries that Jeremie Frimpong and Conor Bradley suffered, and, he also forced Iraola to bring Ronald Araujo in.

Of course, Araujo has done fairly well since joining Liverpool but, since he's only on a season-long loan, his future is still undecided.

Each of these reasons are why the Reds have been linked with their former star once again.

And now, transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has shared an update on how Liverpool and the Englishman feel about linking up once again.

“Today, we focus on the future of Trent Alexander-Arnold,” Romano said.

“[There have been] many rumours and many stories over the recent weeks about the possibility for Trent to leave Real Madrid already in the January transfer window.

“And, some links coming from England about a potential return to Liverpool.

“Let’s immediately clarify one thing, there is zero ongoing between Trent Alexander-Arnold, Real Madrid and Liverpool, zero at all.

“Trent obviously respects and loves the club but that’s it, it’s in the past. Trent is fully focused on Real Madrid and there is no contact or negotiation at all with Liverpool.”

Trent Alexander-Arnold returning to Liverpool would be massive

Although the way that things ended between Alexander-Arnold and Liverpool wasn't ideal, his return would still be massive for the Reds.

The Anfield outfit are in desperate need of some creativity because, right now, Florian Wirtz just isn't cutting it.

Of course, he has been fairly unlucky during his time at Anfield thus far but, even with that taken into account, you'd still be expecting him to perform much better, especially with Bradley Barcola and Alexander Isak ahead of him.

Alexander-Arnold has been left out of Jose Mourinho's plans for a while now and, even though the Special One keeps saying that he'll get his chance, that doesn't feel all that likely.

So, the fact that Liverpool and the Englishman aren't in contact with one another is fairly upsetting, especially since these are supposed to be the prime years of his career when he should be playing every single game possible.