I was sick to leave Reds - but I get Trent's choice

I've kind of known for a while that Trent Alexander-Arnold would be leaving Liverpool.

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You hear on the grapevine so I expected it, it's just the timing of it coming out.

So I'm not shocked at all. I know some supporters are angry with him, calling him all sorts, but it's over the top. Fans are fans. Some will see one side, some will see the other side. I'm in between really.

It's just the fact he's a homegrown lad, desperate to play for Liverpool, gets in, does everything, wins everything. But you've got to appreciate his feelings and just let him get on with it.

I left Liverpool for different reasons. I wanted a three-year contract and Kenny Dalglish said I wasn't going to play that year. It was the last year of my contract and he was going to play with Peter Beardsley and Ian Rush.

I had to leave, I was gutted. I was absolutely sick. But I had to make the most of it, which I did. And I loved it in Spain.

Trent's now going the other way, choosing to go. It's going to be massively affluent for him, his family, his agents. He's making a new life for himself, he might stay there, he might live there for the rest of his life.