"Once you've moved once and you're not in the place everyone assumes you are never going to move on from, you almost become a tradable asset. I never grew up wanting to play for Real Madrid but it's an honour I did. I grew up wanting to play for Liverpool. Once you move, you lose that absolute attachment to your club and you become a trading proposition. You lose the glue you once had, going from contract to contract, because you aren't playing for the team you support."
"It means more than that when you've come through the ranks. Alexander-Arnold could perhaps look at LFC legend Steven Gerrard as someone who did things differently, with the former club captain never playing for another major European club, even though he will surely have had a few opportunities to do so. Instead, Gerrard played for Liverpool until his mid-30s before a brief spell in the MLS before he retired."
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