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title: "Journalist says Gareth Southgate is still not convinced by Liverpool’s £90m starlet ahead of Euro’s"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Sterling"
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published: "2021-05-17T18:00:00Z"
modified: "2021-05-17T18:00:00Z"
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# Journalist says Gareth Southgate is still not convinced by Liverpool’s £90m starlet ahead of Euro’s

The upcoming Euro 2020 tournament is just months away after being [delayed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51909518) for almost a year.

England will be hoping to make up for the [lost chance](https://news.sky.com/story/world-cup-2018-england-finish-fourth-after-2-0-loss-to-belgium-11437090) of their run in the 2018 World Cup after finishing fourth.

It has been more than [50 years](https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/england1966/teams/team/43942/) since the country has won a major trophy – leaving this tournament an important one.

Manager Gareth Southgate recently [shocked fans](https://readliverpoolfc.com/2019/05/16/liverpool-trio-named-in-southgates-england-squad/), when he decided to leave out Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold.

During the countries friendlies in March, Southgate opted against the inclusion of Trent.

His reasoning was down to his drop in form recently despite being one of Liverpool’s [best performers](https://www.whoscored.com/Teams/26/Show/England-Liverpool).

However, according to [The Athletic’s](https://theathletic.co.uk/) [David Ornstein](https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein), Southgate still doesn’t plan on taking Trent to the Euros next month…

https://twitter.com/AnfieldWatch/status/1394187434150215682

## ReadLiverpool Verdict

It is an incredible piece of information especially if it is true.

Trent is one of the [most valuable players](https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2020/wp319/en/) in the world and Southgate would be making a huge mistake.

With plenty of options are right-back, it is understandably a difficult decision for the man to make.

However, Trent’s numbers and form should speak for itself.

The 22-year-old has [1 goal and 4 assists](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/trent-alexander-arnold/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/314353/wettbewerb/GB1/saison/2020/verein/31) in his last seven Premier League games from right-back.

This late surge in form should no doubt provide an alarm for Southgate as to why Trent should be picked.

There is just a month away and things are hotting up in the race for the final 26-man squad.

Hopefully, Trent will get the respect he deserves and Southgate will pick him in his final list of players.