Real Madrid are now making it a habit, lol, they signed Kylian Mbappe for free and now they get Trent Arnold for free too, two of the best players in the world in their respective positions. Liverpool fans will be absolutely gutted, they will feel hard done that they are losing one of the best right backs in the world for free, when they could have easily got >60m for the English international, i guess Real Madrid are the winners in this deal.
What I see this days with football players is that most of them allow their contract to almost run down completely before they get to agree a new contract, so if it is a top player other clubs start circling around them and once they get the deal they want they move or they force the club into giving them a huge contract. Real Madrid has been exploiting this situation and it has worked for them. What I see and think then is that most of this club are even at fault.
Like Liverpool they had all the time in the world to actually get something from Arnold but they didn’t and then later offered him a huge contract which he didn’t agree to. I still think it is Liverpool’s fault because they did same thing with Sadio Mane when he left to Bayern Munich then. They delayed a new contract until he had agreed with Bayern Munich.
Real Madrid only get their way if the club wants them to, look at Lille they didn’t allow such to happen to Yoro and got him sold to Manchester United then