The evidence is stacking up: Is Trent Alexander-Arnold STAYING at Liverpool?

There is plenty of jubilation around Liverpool’s Premier League title victory - their second top-flight success in the span of five years.

But there is also a sense of dejection over the fate of one of Liverpool’s stars of both title-winning seasons. It’s been speculated that we are seeing the last days of Trent Alexander-Arnold as a Liverpool player.

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Having made his first-team debut close to a decade ago, Trent has won everything there is to win with his boyhood club but appears set to move onto pastures new.

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His unsigned contract has been one of the subplots to the entire season, with the club even fighting off a January attempt from Real Madrid to strike a deal.

However, despite resisting those efforts, Liverpool will be powerless once Trent finally has the pen in his hand and signs that Real Madrid deal instead.

For those celebrating on Sunday, they might have asked themselves the same question that Peter Drury asked on Sky Sports commentary.

How can Trent consider leaving?

Van Dijk and Salah know the score

In the cold light of day, Trent will get more money at Real - in wages and a hefty signing-on fee. But surely that won’t be the only consideration.

If that was the case for Mo Salah, for example, there is little doubt he would have joined Al-Hilal. Salah knows Liverpool are set up for plenty of team honours in the next few seasons and wants to be part of it.

Virgil van Dijk - too - is signed up until 2027 as Arne Slot looks set to dominate the domestic scene in the years ahead. And maybe - just maybe the events of the last few days might come into Trent’s thinking.

Gakpo drops Trent hint

Not only are Real Madrid a rabble currently but he’s been given a first-hand glimpse once again of what winning top trophies with the Reds feels like.

And the evidence seems to be stacking up that Madrid’s high-profile summer signing might not be as quite in the bag as we are led to believe.

Whisper it, but there may very well be a chance that Trent performs the mother and father of all U-turns and signs a new Liverpool contract.

After the game Cody Gakpo told Sky Sports he was optimistic about the future of the club. “Now with Mo and Virgil staying, and hopefully Trent as well, they can keep building,” he said.

If the Real Madrid deal was a slam dunk then you can be sure that the squad will have known about it.

Trent's talks with FSG owner

Then we saw Trent deep in conversation with owner John W Henry pitchside. Was it one, last-ditch effort from the FSG svengali to persuade his hometown hero to remain on Merseyside?

It doesn’t stop there. Linda Henry - the owner’s wife - shared her own reflections on the title win with a carousel post on Instagram. She included an image of Trent celebrating, prompting one fan to remark: “Just throwing in that Trent photo [side-eye emoji].”

Linda replied with a side-eye emoji of her own.

And Trent too was active on social media. Having received the adulation from the Kop - singing You’ll Never Walk Alone - he posted after the game: “For the City. For the Fans [love heart emoji]."

Is the Madrid deal really only a matter of time?

For the first time he felt what it was REALLY like to win the title in front of the Anfield faithful. How special - and potentially addictive - that might have been.

Meanwhile, following Madrid’s Copa del Rey final defeat to Barcelona which effectively ended their season, the Spanish capital media were all out in force talking about Trent.

A formality. A matter of time. Just needs official confirmation. 99 per cent done. You name it, they were saying it.

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Only we know it might be less secure than that. While there’s life there’s hope. And Liverpool have never been more alive.