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Liverpool's academy director Alex Inglethorpe has revealed that Trent Alexander-Arnold 'hated' a former academy teammate. The right-back rose through the youth ranks at Liverpool to make it to the first team and grow into one of the club's greats.
During his youth days, however, Inglethorpe said that Alexander-Arnold had a rival on the pitch, attacker Bobby Adekanye. The latter currently plies his trade for Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie.
Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Inglethorpe opened up on the England international's age-group days, saying:
"Trent had a really good sparring partner in a young lad called Bobby Adekanye, who's gone on to have a really good career in Holland. But Bobby was really confident in his own ability... really super confident. Every day he would tell Trent what he was going to do, and you could see Trent hated it with a passion. He probably hated him [Adekanye] with a passion, at the time. It was competitive, it was real, and I think if you're sparring or rehearsing, you need that."
