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Real Madrid are in talks to sign Liverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold on a free transfer this summer. The Spanish side is hoping to finalize the deal for the England international before the start of the next season.
Multiple sources close to the negotiations have said that while a deal is still to be fully agreed, work towards completing the transfer is reaching the closing stages - though nothing has been signed yet.
Alexander-Arnold is in the final three months of his contract at Liverpool and is free to discuss a move abroad.
Real have made the 26-year-old a priority target this summer with sources close to the situation saying the Spanish club have been tracking the player for close to two years.
Alexander-Arnold has spent his entire career at Anfield, coming through the academy to make more than 300 appearances for the club. He has won every major trophy while playing for Liverpool and is the club's vice-captain.
Having joined the club at the age of six, Alexander-Arnold progressed through the Liverpool academy and was given his first-team debut by Jurgen Klopp in October 2016. He has established himself as a key member of a side that won the Premier League, Champions League and Club World Cup in the space of 14 months in 2019 and 2020.
Alexander-Arnold signed a new four-year contract in the summer of 2021 and scored penalties in shootouts of both finals as Liverpool won the League Cup and FA Cup in 2021-22.
The England full-back was named in the PFA team of the season for the third time at the end of that campaign and in July 2023 was named Liverpool vice-captain.
"I've never been shy of saying what my ambitions are and that's always been to captain this club," Alexander-Arnold said at the time. "This is a pathway and a stepping stone to that."
