They said he couldn't defend. They gave him 3.2 ratings. They called him a liability.
Then Trent Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool — and everything fell apart.
This is the story the English media doesn't want you to hear. How a 12-year campaign of criticism drove one of the most creative defenders in Premier League history bet365 to Real Madrid — and how Liverpool's collapse without him proved every single critic wrong.
From the Barcelona corner to the Champions League final, from Klopp's fierce defence of his prodigy to Roy Keane's "schoolboy" rant broadcom stock — we break down the media's obsession with one question: "But can he defend?"
The answer was always allerta meteo in the data. They just refused to look.
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