Carragher has urged Jurgen Klopp to continue using Trent Alexander-Arnold in a midfield position next season, in order to bring the best out of the 24-year-old.
Trent Registered seven assists in the final ten Premier League games of the season offered a clear indication of the impact made from Klopp's new approach.
Carragher:
"I think his body language when he’s in midfield, compared to when he’s just been playing full-back, is completely different.
“It feels like I’m watching a faster, more energetic player. I see some of the passes he plays from midfield and no matter who we buy - even if we bought Jude Bellingham - how much more could he do than what he [Alexander-Arnold] does in midfield?
I'm not sure, whoever you buy, whether you spend £100m on anyone, they can do much more than Trent. I think another season I’d be of the mind of saying 'Let’s buy a right-back and put him in midfield', because this kid is too good to not be the centre of this team. It's his team.
“It is getting to the stage now where he is getting more mature and it will eventually become his team. He will end up being the captain. Take away the stuff he gets criticised for, which at times it is not great. He can improve on stuff, although he’ll never be amazing at it, so let’s focus on what he is amazing at. He's amazing at that [midfield role], so leave him."
Carragher added
"The one thing he has never been able to do from full-back is score goals. We've seen it from free-kicks, but I actually think if he was in midfield permanently and didn't have that thing in the back of his head of 'When we lose the ball, I've got to get back there', you would be seeing someone who could get five or six goals outside the box."
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