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Right now, I am a Liverpool player, I love the club more than anything."

‘The Scouser in the team’, Alexander-Arnold has lived the dream.

As things stand, he is well-placed to become a two-time Premier League champion too.

But dreams change.

But it is harder to pinpoint when exactly his tone changed.

For so long, he dreamed of playing for Liverpool, winning trophies galore and captaining his boyhood club - hoping to emulate his hero, Steven Gerrard.

But he made headlines the following month when rather than repeating the same team goals, he instead declared he wants to become the first full-back to win the Ballon d'Or.

"I believe I can win the Ballon d'Or," he said.

While he has won all major honours with the Reds, there is no escaping the fact that Real Madrid open those doors even further.

Since making his Liverpool debut in 2016, the Reds have won one Premier League title, the Champions League, the FIFA Club World Cup, two League Cups, the FA Cup, the European Super Cup and the Community Shield.

They have also been Premier League runners-up twice, lost in two Champions League, one League Cup, two Community Shield finals and reached one other semi-final.

Over the same period, Real Madrid have won four La Liga titles, four Champions Leagues, four FIFA Club World Cup/FIFA Intercontinental Cups, three European Super Cups, the Copa del Rey and four Supercopa de Espana.

While Liverpool can now only win the Premier League title this season, Real Madrid are currently level on points with Barcelona at the top of the La Liga table, boasting a 1-0 aggregate lead in the Copa del Rey semi-finals, through to the Champions League quarter-finals and set to compete in this summer's inaugural revamped FIFA Club World Cup.

Alexander-Arnold’s Reds dream has already come true.

While Alexander-Arnold is a boyhood Reds fan, having joined the club at the age of six, it is a long, long time since he stood alongside supporters on the terraces