Look, Mohamed Salah has scored at Vicarage Street. It is 3-2.

It was August 2017. On his Liverpool debut, a former Chelsea flop took the primary steps of an odyssey that continues to this present day. In fact, Liverpool did not handle to carry on that day, plugged again by Miguel Britos’ controversial 96th-minute equaliser, however that does not matter anymore.

It was, in some ways, the true genesis of Liverpool’s glory days, with Jurgen Klopp assembling a world-class strikeforce in its toddler stage, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino additionally scoring for a facet that had no clue what lay forward.

Mane and Firmino’s ships have sailed however Salah nonetheless reigns supreme within the Premier League, remaining after Klopp left in the summertime and beginning life beneath Arne Slot with aplomb, posting three targets and three assists throughout simply three opening fixtures.

32 years younger. The athletic phenomenon appears nearly as good as he ever has, and he is not the one long-serving Liverpool stalwart making a constructive impression.

Certainly, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool’s vice-captain, continues to thrive for membership and – in a newfound capability – nation. He is considered one of soccer’s most interesting technicians. He is world-class. He is solely 25, however his valuation, as recorded by Transfermarkt, has skyrocketed through the years.

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Trent’s market worth in 17/18 ​​​

The 12 months that began all of it. Liverpool’s 2017/18 season would finish in dejection in a Gareth Bale-fuelled Actual Madrid victory within the Champions League ultimate, not helped by Loris Karius, however Alexander-Arnold took steps onto the senior stage, and Liverpool knew that they had a brand new star.

The 17-year-old’s expertly dispatched free-kick in opposition to Hoffenheim was just the start, and at that very same time, when Salah scored his debut objective, this younger lad was valued at a paltry £1m.

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Trent’s market worth in 18/19

Transfermarkt’s lowly £1m valuation one 12 months earlier than lifted to €25m (£21m), however his efforts throughout the marketing campaign let Liverpool followers know that they had a particular participant of their midst.

Up till the top of the 2018/19 season, Klopp’s Liverpool have been a proficient and thrilling bunch, however not the stuff of champions; having fallen in opposition to Los Blancos in final 12 months’s Champions League ultimate, few envisaged the Reds would return and vanquish their demons.

‘Nook taken shortly.’ Everyone knows it. Alexander-Arnold went from energy to energy, showcasing his prodigious playmaking powers and incomes acclaim.

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Trent’s market worth in 19/20

Trent’s efforts in successful Europe’s elite membership competitors have been good and all that, however Klopp’s boys had developed a hankering for silverware and have been bothered by lacking out on the Premier League title by a single level, to Manchester Metropolis.

Alexander-Arnold posted 4 targets and 13 assists within the division that 12 months, which was instrumental in clinching the best place on the rostrum. His efforts the 12 months earlier than had despatched his worth hovering towards the elite degree, with Transfermarkt certainly valuing him at €80m (£69m) in the summertime of 2019. Spoiler alert: it rose greater nonetheless.

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Trent’s market worth in 20/21

Klopp’s dynasty did have its peaks and valleys, and the 2020/21 marketing campaign was considered one of frustration because the Premier League champions have been ravaged by accidents, although they did pull off an excellent escape in their very own proper to say a top-four spot in opposition to all the percentages.

In a COVID-affected world, Alexander-Arnold endured some hardship, although he did start the marketing campaign with a frankly absurd market worth of €110m (£93m), which actually does underscore simply how particular he’s.

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Trent’s market worth in 21/22

Bounce again. Liverpool restored their place as behemoths of the European recreation and returned to the ascendancy. Two trophies have been received this 12 months and Alexander-Arnold was on fireplace, the right-back clinching 21 objective contributions throughout 47 matches.

Defensive frailties and Liverpool’s total poor performances the 12 months earlier than pulled the 25-year-old’s worth again all the way down to earth, nevertheless, nonetheless, it stood at a commendable €75m (£63m).

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Trent’s market worth in 22/23

This was a low level. Alexander-Arnold was among the many most rebuked Liverpool gamers in the course of the nadir of Klopp’s tenure. Liverpool capitulated and missed out on Champions League soccer after ending fifth.

Patchy type and shoddy defending characterised the time period, with the Reds presumably burned out after the agonising close to misses of the 12 months earlier than.

A lot of the criticism headed Alexander-Arnold’s approach was undue, for he nonetheless popped up with some magical moments, supplied world-class creativity and was hailed as a “genius” by Reds reporter Neil Jones.

His market worth stood at €80m (£69m) at first of the marketing campaign however hit its lowest ebb after the low season.

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Trent’s market worth in 23/24

Klopp revamped Liverpool’s midfield, a realm that Alexander-Arnold began to step into with larger regularity, flaunting his glittering vary of passing.

Liverpool’s resurgent facet weren’t at all times handled to the maestro’s performances, for he missed a piece attributable to harm, however Klopp praised him for his “world-class” high quality, and rightly so.

The woes of the season earlier than meant that he began the season with a market price of ‘simply’ €65m (£55m), which remains to be a substantial valuation, however he resided within the penultimate 12 months of his £180k-per-week contract and solely renewal would see him return to the summit of soccer’s priciest gamers.

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Trent’s market worth in 24/25

On the time of writing, it is September 2023. The place’s that contract, Mr. Hughes? Apologies for the levity however do strive to not fret. The aforementioned Salah is the primary of Liverpool’s central trio to obtain contractual consideration, and there is tentative promise with that one, however let’s simply wait and see, ay?

Again to Trent, who’s lastly getting the Three Lions recognition he deserves, performing with audacious gusto for membership and nation. The town-born famous person’s scenario might be essentially the most regarding of the lot, not least as a result of Actual Madrid lurk, taken with snapping up one other elite expertise on a free switch.

It merely can not occur. Alexander-Arnold, regardless of his current scenario, has a market worth of €70m (£59m), however simply think about what would occur if Liverpool obtained him to scribble that nib and spell his signature.

To place it one other approach, simply think about what would occur if Liverpool cannot get him to do precisely that.