Former scout Mick Brown has claimed that a huge European could consider making a move for a “great” Liverpool player this summer.
Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to be the most high-profile departure at Anfield at the end of the season, with the 26-year-old off to Real Madrid.
Speaking to Football Insider, though, Brown said that the reigning Champions League holders are also interested in making a move for Alexis Mac Allister, as Xabi Alonso looks to snap him up.
“Real Madrid have got some problems going into the window,” Brown said.
“The manager has gone, it looks like Xabi Alonso will be the one to replace him. Then you’ve got the two centre-halves who need replacing, and there’s been a bit of talk they want to sign a new midfielder as well.
“So they need three or four players, and they’ve got to be top-level players which aren’t easy to find. They’ve got Alexander-Arnold coming in so that’s one position off their list. Alexis Mac Allister is a player I hear they have been looking at as well.
“The new manager knows the Liverpool scene well, he’ll still have his contacts at the club and he’ll be speaking to them about a possible deal. It would be a huge deal. So he’ll know the situation as much as any opposition manager can do.”
Mac Allister too important to consider selling
Liverpool losing Mac Allister would be an almighty blow, at a time when Madrid are proving to become even bigger rivals, due to their penchant for signing their players.
The Argentine World Cup winner is one of the key names on Arne Slot’s team sheet, combining brilliance on the ball with a steely edge out of possession, not to mention having an elite football brain.
In fact, Slot lauded that area of Mac Allister’s game recently, saying the 26-year-old has “great game intelligence”, and for all Ryan Gravenberch’s magnificent form this season, he is still the best midfielder at Liverpool.
Hopefully, the former Brighton man is happy at Anfield, seeing his future there, and if the Reds even entertain the idea of letting him go, it would have to be for an enormous amount of money.
Slot surely won’t even be thinking about that, however, seeing the Argentine ace as a major part of his plans for as long as possible.
