{"id":40275,"date":"2025-01-07T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40275"},"modified":"2025-01-07T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:20:19","slug":"van-dijk-alexander-arnolds-performance-unaffected-by-real-madrid-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/van-dijk-alexander-arnolds-performance-unaffected-by-real-madrid-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Dijk: Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s Performance Unaffected by Real Madrid Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has dismissed suggestions that Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s performance has been affected by Real Madrid\u2019s interest in signing him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The British news agency PA Media reported that the English international right-back was at fault for Manchester United\u2019s opening goal in their 2-2 draw at Anfield on Sunday and had a generally poor performance throughout the match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Real Madrid expressed interest earlier this week in signing Alexander-Arnold, whose contract with Liverpool expires this summer. Reports have linked the player with a move to the Spanish giants during the current winter transfer window.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, Van Dijk, who is also in the final five months of his contract, is unconcerned about the situation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I have no concerns about that,&#8221; the Liverpool captain said. &#8220;Trent has a lot of people around him\u2014his family, and of course us as well.&#8221; He added, &#8220;He always wants to deliver his best, as we all do, and that\u2019s where his focus lies.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Van Dijk continued: &#8220;In my opinion, maybe that\u2019s a question better directed to him. It\u2019s a distraction from the match.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Liverpool currently leads the Premier League standings with 46 points, six ahead of second-placed Arsenal, with a game in hand.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has dismissed suggestions that Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s performance has been affected by Real Madrid\u2019s interest in signing him. The British news agency PA Media reported that the English international right-back was at fault for Manchester United\u2019s opening goal in their 2-2 draw at Anfield on Sunday and had a generally poor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40276,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions\/40276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}