‘Nobody wants to grow up to be a Gary Neville,’ goes the saying coined by Jamie Carragher, who described full backs as ‘failed wingers or failed centre backs’.
Trent Alexander-Arnold was only 14 when Carragher first uttered those words on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football in 2013, but the Liverpool right back remembered them well.
The now 21-year-old England international mentioned them in an interview earlier this year while explaining how he and Andy Robertson want to change the perception of the position.
Nowadays, to be a full back is fashionable — as likely to feature in a transfer saga as any striker.