Liverpool star could do more than Declan Rice at Arsenal, claims Dean Saunders

Dean Saunders believes Trent Alexander-Arnold is the best English midfielder in the Premier League and can do more in Liverpool’s midfield than Declan Rice.

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Alexander-Arnold impressed in his central-midfield role for Liverpool and England towards the end of last season, although it looks likely that Jurgen Klopp will revert him to right-back for the start of the new Premier League campaign.

Rice, meanwhile, is closing in on his £105 million move to Arsenal and is due to undergo a medical with Mikel Arteta’s side this week.

Liverpool have already signed Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai for a combined £95m to bolster Klopp’s midfield options, but Saunders feels his former club should target a new right-back in order to allow Alexander-Arnold to play in a permanent midfield role.

‘I think that Trent is the best English midfield player in England. I think he’s better than all of them,’ Saunders told talkSPORT.

‘If you play him in midfield he can do everything that Declan Rice does, but also he can hit passes that Thiago [Alcantara] hits and sees it.

‘If I was Jurgen Klopp, I’d buy a right-back and play Trent in midfield.

‘I think that Trent was brought up as a midfield player. He ended up at full-back but he knows what to do.

‘I was watching him and you need to have wing mirrors on when you’re playing in midfield with your back to goal and playing the other way – you need to do both and I think that he can do both.

‘I think that Jurgen Klopp will eventually play Trent in the middle of midfield.’

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