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Real Madrid could be ‘too tempting’ for Alexander-Arnold

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We asked you to send in your questions for Fara Williams and the former England midfielder and BBC Sport pundit has been answering a selection.

Gerold asked: Between Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, who do you think will extend or leave at the end of this season?

All three players are very important for this Liverpool side.

Van Dijk and Salah are older and may want to make more money elsewhere. They are the ones who have done everything at the club when it comes to trophies and therefore might want to move on.

With Alexander-Arnold it is more difficult. He is homegrown and we know what Liverpool means to him. The only temptation – and I am sure Liverpool fans will not like me saying this – is if Real Madrid came in for him, I think that would be too tempting for him not to go.

If one of the three is to stay, it would be Alexander-Arnold. However, the difficulty with the other two is that they are both still performing at such a high level and are more than capable of signing for another two years.

I do think it is surprising players of that importance have not been tied down to contracts sooner and have been allowed to run them down as much as they have.

In general, as a player going through the contract process, when you are happy you just want that contract signed. I have been at clubs where I never really wanted to leave but then it got to the point where I did. That is where it became tricky.

If you are happy, the contract situation is easy. Sometimes, it is not even about the money.

Fara Williams was speaking to BBC Sport’s Nicola Pearson

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