Sam Wallace

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Sam Wallace

No one can say any longer that Trent Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool as a free agent in the conventional sense – indeed he was the most expensive free agent in the post-Bosman era. He arrived in Madrid on Friday with Real having decided that the £10 million they will pay Liverpool for his registration in the 29-day interim that precedes his free agency at the end of the month is worth the gamble.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace

Jonathan Woodgate's move between the two was an anomaly - although he was a talented player and considered worth a risk if the pieces had fallen right. Jude Bellingham joined Real much earlier in his career and his first season instantly made him a greater success than all those Englishmen at Real who had preceded him - including the pioneer, Laurie Cunningham. For Alexander-Arnold, the challenge is different.

1 week ago | msn.com | Sam Wallace

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1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Sam Wallace

The only British footballer in history to get a Champions League winners’ medal while playing for Inter Milan would use it as a ball marker in the few years he spent as a professional golfer on the PGA circuit. Ben Greenhalgh laughs at the memory of the confusion it would spread in matchplay. “That was my way of getting into an opponent’s head, to let them know that I might be all right at golf but I had also done a bit in football,” he says.