Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold spoke to ‘Sky Sports’ about his team’s goals next season, after a somewhat disappointing 5th place Premier League finish. The Englishman wants the Reds to return to the Champions League and take the fight to treble-winning Man City.

The 2023-24 season will see Liverpool swap the Champions League for Europa League fixtures, after an inconsistent season saw them finish 5th in the Premier League. Fans and players were disappointed with the result, and Reds academy graduate Trent Alexander-Arnold sat down with ‘Sky Sports’ his goals for his team next season.

Asked about reaching the top four again he was clear that there’s no question: “I think as a club it’s necessary to be honest. You know, we do respect every competition we play in but if you’d asked us this time last year, would you want to finish fifth, we’d have all said no and same again now”.

The Englishman wants his team to return to the highs of 2019-20, when they last won England’s top flight: “Would we want to finish fifth next season? No. We want to be winning the league, we want to be challenging and being in title races and in Champions League football so to not be in that next season is disappointing“.

“We know how to win the league, we know how to challenge City and go toe to toe with them and you need to be near perfect throughout the season so for us that’s where our heads are at”, he continued.

The defender understands well what it will take to return to the top. “It’s consistency“, he said. “Throughout the season we had good results against the big teams but we dropped points and sloppy points away from home especially, so these are the things that we’ve all naturally thought about that we need to correct”.