Liverpool’s full-back-turned-midfielder Trent Alexander-Arnold says it is necessary for Liverpool to finish higher in the table next season in the Premier League and admits they’ll have to be ‘near perfect’ to challenge Manchester City.Jurgen Klopp’s side won’t be playing Champions League football after finishing fifth in the previous campaign and ended up 22 points behind City.🗣️ “We [Liverpool] want to be winning the league, we want to be challenging in title races and in Champions League football, so to not be in that next season is disappointing.” Trent Alexander-Arnold says Liverpool want to be challenging in the elite competitions. 🏆🔴 pic.twitter.com/8JBPSGKM5g— Football Daily (@footballdaily) July 11, 2023 When asked how confident he was about Liverpool improving on fifth place, TAA told Sky Sports News:”I think as a club it’s necessary to be honest. You know, we do respect every competition we play in but if you’d asked us this time last year, would you want to finish fifth, we’d have all said no and same again now.”Would we want to finish fifth next season? No. We want to be winning the league, we want to be challenging and being in title races and in Champions League football so to not be in that next season is disappointing.”We know how to win the league, we know how to challenge City and go toe to toe with them and you need to be near perfect throughout the season so for us that’s where our heads are at.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7365328####EDITORS_CHOICE##To become near perfect, Liverpool will need to improve their away form. Defeats such as those at Wolves and Bournemouth cost them dear.”It’s consistency,” said Alexander-Arnold. “Throughout the season we had good results against the big teams but we dropped points and sloppy points away from home especially, so these are the things that we’ve all naturally thought about that we need to correct.”The 24-year-old impressed in a hybrid role for his club in the latter stages of the previous campaign, playing as an inverted right-back pushing into midfield.The Saudis want to make him obscenely wealthy – and he just wants to be ready for LiverpoolHe then played in an advanced midfield role for England in the recent Euro 2024 qualifiers and shone against Malta and North Macedonia.”It’s not my decision,” said Alexander-Arnold. “I only play where I’m told to play so you know all I can say is I enjoy playing football, I enjoy playing right-back, I enjoy playing in the middle of the pitch a lot.”
