Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold makes career prediction after emphasizing trophy ambition

Out of contract at Liverpool in the summer of 2025 as things stand, Trent Alexander-Arnold has made it abundantly clear where his priority lies for the rest of his career. He wants to win, and he wants to continue to redefine what it means to be a right-back.

In a candid interview with ITV Sport , the Liverpool number 66 has laid out what he wants from the rest of his playing years having turned 26 this week. The Reds hope that it will be at Anfield that those ambitions are pursued, while Real Madrid is lurking in the background and hoping to pounce on his contract situation.

"No excuses. I'm a man now. The first eight years were amazing and let's hope the next eight are even better," Alexander-Arnold said when he was asked to reflect on what has come before, and what he wants next.

On his desire to win more trophies and his hunger to progress as a player, Alexander-Arnold admitted to having a "fear" of not fulfilling his potential. Earlier this season, speaking to reporters including from Liverpool.com , the right-back detailed the lengths he was going to improve the defensive side of his game and it is understood that he has fully bought into the ideas that Arne Slot is implementing.

There remains a question mark about where his future lies but Alexander-Arnold is determined to ensure that he continues to get better. Liverpool has always proven to be the ideal environment for that up to now.

"It's a hamster wheel," he continued. "It will never be enough. There will never be enough trophies that you can win. There will never be enough assists or passes that you make. Every single day, I tried to improve and [at the end of my career, if] I believe I maximized the potential that from a very young age everyone told me that I had, then I will be more than satisfied."

Alexander-Arnold was then asked to predict how the next eight years of his career might look having broken into the Livrpool team under Jurgen Klopp that many seasons ago. "I'm obsessed [with soccer]," he said. "It's 20 years that I've been playing.

"I see someone who has achieved something. Not just trophies but leaving a legacy on the game. I was approaching that area, I think, within the last couple of years.

"I feel like I've entered the prime of my career and [it's about] extending that as far as I can. I don't want to be the player remembered for only winning trophies when he was young; I want to continue to win trophies year after year until the end and was a great player in each season they played."

Liverpool.com says: Everything that Alexander-Arnold wants, he can achieve at Liverpool. In many ways, it would be more special to win more trophies while captaining his boyhood side. The lure of Real Madrid is obvious but the Reds just need to get him tied down to an extension and avoid losing him for nothing in 2025.