Jürgen Klopp’s assistant is so proud of Liverpool’s right-back that both his sons have his name on the back of their Liverpool shirts
Alexander-Arnold is the name on the back of both Romijn and Benjamin Lijnders’s Liverpool shirts. “That is daddy pushing, I pushed for them to do that,” their father, Pepijn Lijnders, admits. The Liverpool assistant manager’s pride in Trent Alexander-Arnold is unmistakable and understandable, having seen his former under-16s captain win every major club trophy available by the age of 23, but his belief that the right-back should be England’s first choice at the World Cup is not founded in bias. It is shaped by Lijnders’s outlook on how the game should be played.
“It is only my opinion but, if you see the game in an attacking way, he gave that position such a creative boost over the last few years. Like Cafu did in the past,” says Jürgen Klopp’s right-hand man. “For me there are no limits for Trent and if you see the game in a certain way then for sure [he should start in Qatar]. But you can see the game in many different ways.”
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