The Scouser in Our Team: The Trent Alexander-Arnold Song | OneFootball

Most terrace songs arrive out of nowhere, dreamt up in a pub or borrowed from a night in Europe. The Trent Alexander-Arnold song is a rare one that came with a formal request attached, with the man doing the asking being the manager himself.

The result stuck almost instantly, largely because it summed up in six words exactly why supporters loved him: he was the Scouser in our team. It is also why his decision to run down his contract in order to join a European rival in Real Madrid hurt people so much that the player ended up being booed at Anfield.

Klopp Asks for a Song

The story starts in the January of 2019, when Trent Alexander-Arnold signed a new contract with Liverpool. Not long after, Jürgen Klopp, the club’s manager at the time, made a point of mentioning that his young right-back, a local lad who the fans already adored, somehow still didn’t have a song of his own. He said that the supporters loved him as one of their own and that he thoroughly deserved a chant, so perhaps that was something they could work on. The Kop, as it tends to, took the hint. Within a few weeks, they had something ready.

The new song made its debut on the 27th of February 2019, when Watford came to Anfield and left on the wrong end of a 5-0 hammering. It was the perfect night for it, too, because Alexander-Arnold was magnificent. He set up both of Sadio Mané’s goals and teed up one of Virgil van Dijk’s headers, finishing the evening with a hat-trick of assists to his name. If there had ever been any doubt about the player’s ability, that was well and truly put to bed. It isn’t even that Watford were a poor team that season, ending up 11th with 50 points at the end of the campaign.



By full-time, the ground was ringing with his new song, sung to the tune of And Now You’re Gonna Believe Us. The player heard it and he clearly loved it, taking to social media afterwards to write, “Proud to be the Scouser in this team. Thank you for my song.” For a twenty-year-old from West Derby who had grown up supporting the club, being serenaded by the Kop was about as good as a Wednesday night gets. There is no great poetry to the words and there doesn’t need to be, given the fact that plenty of Liverpool songs celebrate the football a player produces.

The difference is that Alexander-Arnold’s one celebrated where he was from. Anfield has always reserved a special sort of affection for the Academy boys who make it into the first team and the Scouser in Our Team line put that front and centre. It wasn’t about his crossing or his set-pieces, it was about the fact that one of the crowd’s own had made it all the way to the top. When he left for Real Madrid in the summer of 2025, however, that same line took on a different feel. A song built entirely on the idea of belonging is always going to sit awkwardly once the player it honours decides to belong somewhere else.

The reaction to Alexander-Arnold’s exit was noticeably cooler than the goodbyes given to other Anfield greats. I have some sympathy both ways. A local kid is entitled to chase the biggest stage in the game and he gave the club well over a decade of service and contributed to a cabinet full of trophies before he left. Yet when your whole song is about being one of us, leaving to a rival is different and it would be dishonest to pretend the mood around his departure was anything other than mixed. I didn’t boo him, but I’m also not going to criticise those that chose to do so.

The lyrics:

He’s Alexander-Arnold,

He’s Alexander-Arnold,

He’s Alexander-Arnold:

The Scouser in our team!