Trent interview
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He's boss. Having good scousers in the team is better than anything
Whos the biggest cunt in our current set up? Not saying we are soft but we dont seem to have many players with that agressive in you're face mentality. Mane has been known to leave the boot in when hes in the humour but cant think of anybody else. Keita seemed to get sent off a lot in Germany but havent seen anything like that from him in a red shirt.
Lovren.
Virgil can't be far off. He's not generally the type to start trouble if that's what you mean, but he'll ******* finish it if he has to. When a thug like Troy Deeney says Virgil likes a fight you can be sure our guy's no shrinking violet.
In wars apparently there's two types of men that do practically all the killing. Psychos who either enjoy, or just aren't bothered at all by death on one hand, and guys with the 'hero gene', men who'll do whatever it fucking takes for their brothers on the other. In this analogy, Roy Keane is firmly in the psycho camp. He was a cunt on the field because, well, he's a fucking cunt. I don't think we have many of those, perhaps the utterly self-fixated Lovren, and Becker might be a sneaky psycho too actually. Shaq is a possible there too. On the other hand we deffo have guys with the hero gene. VVD, Milner, Robbo, and Henderson are all arguably in this category.
I think Shaq is there because of his Balkan blood. He would be one of the guys up in The Hague after the war has finished.
If I go to war, Shaq is definitely one of the first on the list.
He looks like he's on steroids all the time.
He looks like he's on steroids all the time.
Yeah hes a scarily big unit but I dont ever recall seeing him put the boot into somebody, deservedly or otherwise. I may be wrong but nothing springs to mind.
Indeed - I don't think that's his style at all. Put the boot into him and you'll end up wishing you hadn't though.
Don't worry about him in that sense. The clever thing the coaching staff did was to teach him to channel that aggression:
A few years ago, had you seen a couple of Liverpool academy coaches giving a teenage trainee a particularly hard time in training, you might have been tempted to think the treatment was a bit regressive. At times Alexander-Arnold might have felt as though he was being picked on. He would have been right.
'When I was a bit younger, I used to show my emotions too much,' he says. 'That was a thing I needed to get rid of because I showed the opposition I was angry or disappointed. That's when you start to get targeted. Too much emotion can work against you.'
So Liverpool's academy coaches, Neil Critchley and Alex Inglethorpe, went to work. They knew they had a jewel. After all, he had been with the club since the age of six. He just needed polishing.
'They helped train that out of me,' he says. 'It was in the season before I was introduced to the first team that they really worked with me a lot on that. It's down to them that I'm now more level-headed and I'm trying to compose myself more on the pitch. I would take it out on myself [if I misplaced a pass] and maybe let my head go down for two or three seconds. The way they did it was to target me in training and to try and get into my head with the way they speak and putting players against me who would get the best of me.
'It was a hard situation in training and I didn't like it. There were times when we fell out but they always told me that they did not mind falling out with me for a week or so if it was going to better me in the long run. Looking back now, it was the perfect way of going about it. I can only thank them so much for the things they have done. I wouldn't be where I'm now without their help.'
You say that like it's negative.
Impressively mature and well-expressed from TAA there. Must be rewarding for coaches to see their efforts pay off so well.
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