29 Mar 2025 21:03:28
Take this with a BOWL of salt but I’m hearing murmurs that Trent may be having second thoughts about putting pen to paper with Madrid. Likely he still goes, but it’s not guaranteed.
29 Mar 2025 23:36:14
Ooh. Gerrardesque turn. Nice.
I'm going to choose to believe this.
Come on Trent. Do it.
30 Mar 2025 00:29:24
Picture on tonight’s echo website ( Liverpool paper, printed in Manchester so most scousers don’t buy it) for you non scousers where he is sat I’m Mo’s with szob looking really relaxed.
30 Mar 2025 08:16:56
He’s gone - should have just come out and been honest and would have got a lot more respect. Worst thing is he seems like such a nice lad, strange to burn a bridge in this way.
30 Mar 2025 11:49:19
@Brummy, what are you talking about? He said he wasn’t going to say anything 7ntil everything was settled and he stuck to his word. He has reached the end of his contract so there is no obligation for him to stay. His concern is to look after himself and to do what he wants to do. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that and all the tribal bs is just narrow minded cavemen who think the world owes them. Question, if you got offered a really, really good job for one of the biggest companies in the world - a job you might have dreamed of when you were @ kid, would you take it? And would you give a toss @bout what anybody else thought?
30 Mar 2025 12:55:04
I think he will be leaving too but it still isn't confirmed yet so I get why he isn't putting out any statements or anything like that.
Tbh, I think it's this constant need for information that causes so much anxiety in the fan base and gives space for "journalists" like Romano to come in and give blow-by-blow updates when in actuality, there isn't much happening at all. And these updates are then used to rile the fanbase up even more and create even more anxiety since it creates the illusion that so much is happening but there still isn't an official statement made by the parties actually involved.
30 Mar 2025 12:58:41
I read that some fans there even burning shirts for this?
We us fans asking for respect from the players to the club, but did we give them any in the first place?
30 Mar 2025 15:01:30
Hate this"if you got offered a job"comparison West, ridiculous to me! football is not a"job"to fans, people want fans to go to Anfield and sing like a lunatic yet expect them to be so sensible when it suits their argument. The reality is Trent hasn't had a"job"since he signed his first big contract. He's going, fair enough but anyone who thinks he hasn't been in the least bit sneaky about it is deluded to me.
30 Mar 2025 15:53:51
Of course it’s a job. What else is it?
30 Mar 2025 16:02:41
It’s a dream.
30 Mar 2025 16:57:18
I’d be more inclined to accept the view that “it’s just another job” in context of Arnold leaving if he hadn’t made those trite and saccharin sickly comments about how the playing for Liverpool was a dream come true and how his ambition was to be club captain. Or the supercilious remarks about winning trophies with Liverpool “meaning more”, I’d assume that he’s now going to say it was actually always his dream to play for Madrid, he always wanted to follow the lead of other snakes such as Owen or McManaman and winning trophies with them actually means more.
That said, I still feel that the people who own and run the club have absolutely acted negligently and incompetently by even letting this situation arise in the first place. Letting three of the best players at the club get close to within 6 months of their contracts expiring before making a contract offer is appalling maladministration.
30 Mar 2025 16:59:24
It’s THE dream.
30 Mar 2025 18:00:27
It’s an absolute privilege, to play football at the highest level and become a multi millionaire on the back of supporters money. All this job nonsense is ridiculous. His agents and himself have allowed Madrid to constantly leak stories for 6 months. Trent should never play again for Liverpool.
30 Mar 2025 19:24:55
It’s a job for those ‘living the dream’. They go to work and they get paid for it and 5hey have a relatively short time to achieve what they want to achieve.
I saw something a few months back that said the average length of a working career is 41 years. It’s not the case for footballers. Breaking into a team at 20 doesn’t mean you are going to be playing aged 61. More likely is a 15 year career to try and achieve what you want. And, of course your career might be in the lower tiers of the football structure, say National League North, which might not be everybody’s dream. It’s a job - gkamourous at the top end, not so much if you are in the lower leagues and just making a living.
30 Mar 2025 19:30:02
If Virg has signed new contract, then that's at least 2 yrs for trent to be captain. does trent moving indicate Virg has signed. and in the process sealed Trents move to Madrid?
30 Mar 2025 22:46:08
Trent is a snake.
31 Mar 2025 00:01:40
it's a dream for us folk who couldn't be arsed working hard enough to do that for a job.
31 Mar 2025 00:42:13
As soon as you get paid for doing it then it becomes a job. We don’t see it that way because we are supporters and we choose to do that so it’s a hobby for us. For some of us it’s a way of life so we can’t understand why any Liverpool supporter would want to play for anyone else but for him it’s a job.
I’m from Liverpool but I got offered more money to work in London 30 years ago so gave up my season ticket and moved down south. I still support Liverpool even though I can’t make it to all of the games anymore.
He might be a supporter of Liverpool FC but that doesn’t mean he has to play for us. Many Liverpool supporters play professional football but don’t play for Liverpool and if they play against Liverpool they’ll do their best to beat us. Because it’s their job.
Too much hype about a right back for me. I can’t remember any team in history worrying so much about losing a right back. He’s a good player but really not worth the angst to be honest. If he goes we’ll be just fine without him.
31 Mar 2025 10:18:39
Let’s be honest here.
Top footballers get obscene amounts of money for playing a game!
And for some it’s still never enough. They can retire at 30 and never have to work a day in their lives.
For those who don’t feel they earned enough …. Get a job like everyone else has to.
Cancer surgeon is a job
Heart surgeon is a job
Carer is a job
Shop Assistant is a job
Football is a game.
31 Mar 2025 13:10:32
Don't get the hate for Trent. How has he been underhanded? We have literally zero clue what has been said behind the scenes. We don't know that he hasn't told the club his intentions two years ago. We don't know that he has promised one thing and then changed his mind ( which people are allowed to do you know) . We don't know that he offered to sign a new deal but wanted guaranteed sale assurances that the club weren't willing to provide. We don't know jack.
And at what point exactly would Trent making an announcement that he was running down his contract be acceptable?
And the whole thing about him tarnishing his legacy? Good grief.
If Ed02 could read some of this.
31 Mar 2025 16:12:39
He’s negotiating for a contract, that’s all this is.