Trent Alexander-Arnold should not start games for Liverpool if he has told the club he is leaving, Jamie Carragher has said.

Equally, it would be a major shock at this point if Trent Alexander-Arnold is not on his way to Real Madrid at the end of the season on a free transfer. But because we all have too many column inches to fill, a new wave of speculation has been stirred by Trent’s full-throttled, shirt-free celebration of his winner against Leicester yesterday.

Alexander-Arnold returned from an injury lay-off to fire the Reds to within three points of the Premier League title.