Overview
- Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool for Real Madrid in summer 2025 and has been a peripheral player this season with fewer than 400 minutes and only four starts.
- José Mourinho has favoured Denzel Dumfries and sometimes Federico Valverde at right-back, which has curtailed Alexander-Arnold’s opportunities at the Bernabéu.
- Reports this week say Real Madrid have opened the door to an exit and have set an alleged £50m price, though that figure has not been independently verified.
- Journalist Pete O’Rourke has told Football Insider that Liverpool are not actively targeting him right now, while pundits say he must demonstrably improve his defending to force a Premier League return.
- His route back is complicated by how he left Liverpool in 2025 and by mixed media signals about interest, making a negotiated summer move or loan more likely than an immediate January transfer.