{"id":2655,"date":"2026-06-11T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:23","slug":"is-trent-in-trouble-alexander-arnold-warned-jose-mourinho-likes-defenders-to-defend-with-denzel-dumfries-tipped-to-become-first-choice-at-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Is Trent in trouble?! Alexander-Arnold warned Jose Mourinho &#8216;likes defenders to defend&#8217; with Denzel Dumfries tipped to become first choice at Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><span>With <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/dani-carvajal-to-leave-real-madrid-on-free-transfer\/blt6eaad2741d729179\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>Dani Carvajal departing on June 30<\/span><\/a><span>the pressure on the 27-year-old to anchor the right flank will intensify under a microscope. Despite the adversity, Hasselbaink insists a return to the Premier League would be premature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Discussing the defender&#8217;s future, Hasselbaink added: \u201cNo, I don&#8217;t think that he should. I think he should persevere and dig in. For England &#8211; I know that he is not with the national team squad right now &#8211; but for the national team itself, it is very good that English players are playing abroad. Now you have Kane, you have Gordon, you have Rashford, you have Trent. I think it will only do England good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;And for Trent, I think it is good for his character that things are not as easy as they were at Liverpool. He needs to show another side to his game, and yeah, he&#8217;s got pressure &#8211; a different kind of pressure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Dani Carvajal departing on June 30the pressure on the 27-year-old to anchor the right flank will intensify under a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}