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Liverpool boss Arne Slot has been sent a warning(Image: Getty Images)

Paul Scholes has warned Liverpool they could be hugely hampered next season if Trent Alexander-Arnold does leave on a free transfer.

And Manchester United legend Scholes believes Alexander-Arnold's creativity will be difficult to replace.

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Scholes highlighted how Liverpool struggled without him as they were beaten 2-1 by Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final, with Jarell Quansah deputising for the injured Alexander-Arnold.



"I think Liverpool were missing Trent, which you don't normally say about a right-back," Scholes said on The Overlap Fan Debate, brought to you by Sky Bet.

"They missed his passes and the number of chances that he creates for Mo Salah throughout the game.

You felt the warning signs most of the way and though they had to change something."

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Scholes is not the only one who believes Alexander-Arnold was a huge miss for Liverpool at Wembley, with Micah Richards saying on The Rest Is Football podcast : "They just didn't have the same flow they usually have.

"And you know Trent on a big pitch - he's a great passer of the ball.

I just thought, from Liverpool's point of view, they really missed him."

It remains to be seen whether Alexander-Arnold will remain at Anfield next season, with Liverpool boss Arne Slot insisting back in January that the England international is "fully committed" to the club.

"I completely understand the question and why you ask it, but you already know the answer: these conversations I have never shared, not about Trent, not about any others, about what I talk to them about," Slot said.

Paul Scholes believes Trent Alexander-Arnold will be a huge loss for Liverpool if he leaves the club next summer(Image: Visionhaus, Visionhaus/Getty Images)

"It was a conversation as many others we had, me and Trent, so let's leave it at that.

He is fully committed to us and he will play on Sunday.

"If it would destabilise players at Liverpool if other people talk about them, then we would really have a problem because if you play at one of the biggest clubs in the world everybody is always - for 12 months long - talking about you, sometimes in relation to other clubs.

"That happens so many times for our players, so if that destabilises them then we really would have had a problem, not only now but in the last six months because there were some talks about our players in the last six months and I don't think it destabilised them at all."

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