EXCLUSIVE | Former Liverpool forward Stan Collymore: ‘Once Real Madrid comes knocking, they’ll get you.’ | OneFootball

Speaking exclusively to Get Spanish Football News, former Liverpool forward Stan Collymore spoke about the pull of Real Madrid.

“I think Real Madrid will always sell itself. Players will always want to go there simply because of their Champions League legacy. I think players know Real Madrid as the biggest club in the world. And I don’t think you’d have any pushback from a Liverpool fan, Manchester United fan, Arsenal fan, or a fan from any other Premier League club if you said Real Madrid is bigger than your club. I think most sane fans would say ‘Yes,'” began Collymore.

Collymore says Liverpool ‘hold Alexander-Arnold to a different level’

That pull has extended and continues to extend to English players, too. “Real Madrid are always cyclically going to be able to take [players like] McManaman, Owen, Beckham. Alexander-Arnold has obviously gone out there. Beyond that, I think there is a rejuvenation of Barcelona; both Real Madrid and Barcelona have had financial issues. I think Atlético Madrid, with the likes of Connor Gallagher, was an interesting one,” says the former striker.

He added, “I think players will continue to go out there, but I think players will naturally gravitate to those three or four clubs. Why English players haven’t gone much beyond Madrid, I think, is obvious. The language, the culture…”

A former Liverpool player himself, Collymore concluded by evoking the move taken by Alexander Arnold earlier this summer as he switched Anfield for the Bernabeu: “A lot of Liverpool fans will be angry because they hold him to a different level because he was the scouser in the team. But the reality is, if you can run a contract down, you’re going to get paid an extra, particularly with Real Madrid, and you saw they paid the £10m just to get him there for the week in the FIFA Club World Cup, which is crazy, but they wanted him there. That he will pocket another £30m or £40m, and that’s the reality of it. Once Real Madrid comes knocking, they’ll get you. If they say enough times, ‘We want you to come to Real Madrid’, there are very few players in the world that will resist.”

Stan Collymore was speaking exclusively to Get Spanish Football News on behalf of NewBettingSites.uk.

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