TrentAlexander-Arnold

Four England goals and eighteen for Liverpool define Trent Alexander-Arnold as a defender who has never been ordinary going forward. Between 2016 and 2025 he made 259 Liverpool appearances, a body of work that carried a Premier League club through nine seasons before a 2025 move to Real Madrid. There his first seventeen outings have produced no goals, a goalless start that stands in sharp contrast to everything before it.

Now 27 and at Real Madrid in Spain, Alexander-Arnold is listed as both a right-back and a midfielder, and it is that flexibility the La Liga side is expected to lean on in 2025/26. Seventeen appearances into the new chapter, the role is still taking shape, but the profile demanded at the Bernabéu is clear: a player trusted to build from deep and cover ground on the right.