{"id":9056,"date":"2025-01-06T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/talk-of-future-did-not-impact-trent-alexander-arnold-virgil-van-dijk\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:30:47","slug":"talk-of-future-did-not-impact-trent-alexander-arnold-virgil-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/talk-of-future-did-not-impact-trent-alexander-arnold-virgil-van-dijk\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of future did not impact Trent Alexander-Arnold &#8211; Virgil van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk does not believe team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s poor performance against Manchester United was because the right-back was impacted by talk about his future.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander-Arnold gave the ball away prior to United taking the lead at Anfield on Sunday, and struggled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cd9x5wpj4y9t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2-2 Premier League draw<\/a> before being replaced by Conor Bradley after 86 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the week leading up to the match, sources said Liverpool rejected an approach from Real Madrid about signing Alexander-Arnold in January as speculation about his future intensified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England international, like Van Dijk and forward Mohamed Salah, is out of contract in the summer and can officially talk to clubs from abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if the speculation had affected Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s performance, Van Dijk said: &#8220;No. I am fine with it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trent has his own people around him, his family and we are there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He wants to perform in the best way possible like we all do. That is the main focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Dijk said in October that talks about extending his deal had started, but after the United game added there was no update on his contract situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salah, who recently said &#8220;we are far away from any progress&#8221; about his own situation, posted a picture on social media of himself with Alexander-Arnold and Van Dijk during the match at Anfield on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cgrwejw1n21o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk does not believe team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s poor performance against Manchester United was because the right-back was impacted by talk about his future. Alexander-Arnold gave the ball away prior to United taking the lead at Anfield on Sunday, and struggled in the 2-2 Premier League draw before being replaced by Conor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9058,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}