Trent Alexander-Arnold on the Importance of Jürgen Klopp and Wanting More

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He’s only just turned 21 and already feels an established star, but Liverpool’s young right back wants more. It can be easy to forget, sometimes, that Trent Alexander-Arnold only just turned 21. He’s already made 97 first team appearances. He’s started two Champions League finals—and won one of them. There are few more established fullbacks anywhere in world football.
And he’s only just turned 21. Much of the credit for that, he says, is down to Jürgen Klopp and the rest of the Liverpool coaching staff, with the German manager making an instant impression on Alexander-Arnold when he took over the club back in October of 2015.
“Within his first few weeks, he was down at the Academy watching the young lads,” Alexander-Arnold told the club’...