A midfield role for TAA?
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00:00Well, moving on to Liverpool now, let's start with Trent Alexander-Arnold,
00:06specifically on the England set-up. Given No. 8 as a midfielder, do you feel like this could be
00:12the perfect time this summer to maybe showcase his talent in the midfield? Obviously, England
00:17do have quite a stacked line-up there, but if the likes of Kobi Mane, who his form might dip, or
00:24Benningham might have a knock, for example, could this be a massive chance for Trent to show what
00:29he's really about, and then maybe this clock here is finished now and he can go into slots
00:36set-up as maybe a midfielder? Yeah, it's interesting, definitely. I mean, obviously,
00:42getting the No. 8 chase is significant, and the national report suggests that he's going to start
00:49that first game against Sevilla, alongside Declan Rice, and Jude Bellingham will play favour up the
00:55pitch. Look, there's been so much clamour for Trent Alexander-Arnold to move into midfield
01:02for a couple of years now. We know his quality on the ball, what he can do with his range of passing,
01:09and maybe his defensive flaws as well, right back, that some are a little bit sceptical about.
01:16And I think, you know, Liverpool supporters, those on their size, don't have a lot of
01:24affinity to England, you know, there's a lot of indifference, but I think with Trent Alexander-Arnold
01:28moving into midfield, it might just maybe make them tune in a little bit, you know,
01:34give them a little bit of extra incentive to tune in and see how he gets on, and as you say,
01:39the Dagenclough era's over, and Slott's come in, and could he move in there? I mean, Slott plays
01:47a 4-2-3-1, so you would think he would want two players who can sit in there, and look,
01:54Trent Alexander-Arnold's passing, he would certainly give you those attributes, and much
01:58could come down to Slott's recruitments as well. He's been linked with the right back from Feyenoord,
02:04and if he came in, then you would certainly have to say that Trent Alexander-Arnold's
02:09in there for a midfield role, because why would you bring him in when you've got Alexander-Arnold,
02:14you know, you've got Conor Bradley there as well, and maybe you play those two together
02:18and rotate them, and you move Alexander-Arnold into the middle, but no, it is tantalising,
02:25I would say, how he's going to perform in there, because there are some doubts, I mean,
02:29I think Roy Keane come out and said that he can't play, he's the top opposition
02:33in midfield, well, if he's given the chance, you can only see how he fares in there.