Chelsea urged to sign Trent Alexander-Arnold amid Liverpool return rumours

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Trent Alexander-Arnold joined Real Madrid last year (Picture: Getty) Chelsea have been urged to sign ‘top-class’ Trent Alexander-Arnold in January following a frustrating start to…

Chelsea have been urged to sign ‘top-class’ Trent Alexander-Arnold in January following a frustrating start to his Real Madrid career.

Alexander-Arnold completed a dream move to Madrid last year, ending a 21-year spell at boyhood club Liverpool in which he won two Premier League titles and the Champions League.

The England international featured in a little over half of Real Madrid’s league games last season as the Spanish giants endured a rare trophyless campaign.

Competition at right-back only increased over the summer with the arrival of Denzel Dumfries from Inter Milan and Jose Mourinho is currently playing midfielder Federico Valverde in that position.

As a result Alexander-Arnold appears to be third choice and has only earned four starts this season, with his lack of game-time raising speculation over his future at the Bernabeu.

A return to Liverpool has been raised as a potential possibility given his former club’s issues at right-back, but Glen Johnson has urged Chelsea to bring the 28-year-old to Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea’s first-choice right-back, club captain Reece James, is expected to be out of action until at least mid-January after undergoing knee surgery last month.

‘Trent Alexander-Arnold will definitely be frustrated playing such a small role at Real Madrid this season,’ ex-Liverpool and Chelsea defender Johnson told SeatPick.

‘Before he went to Madrid, he would have planned on nailing down his spot at right back there, and then they brought in a new right back the summer after he arrived, which will have only frustrated him further.

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