Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold admits he did not want to go the trophy parade the day after their Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid.

He said manager Jurgen Klopp was influential in getting the players to enjoy their success at the end of the season despite the loss in Paris.

"We had a party that night [after the loss to Real Madrid]. At that point no one knows how to feel because it hasn't quite sunk in yet," he told Red Bull's We Go Again podcast.

"The manager in those situations parties because he's like 'it's the end of the season, we might as well'. And he's trying to encourage us to, giving us little words of motivation.

"And everyone was like we can't quite buy into that right now. How often do you lose a game and then go and party? Then add the fact that it's the biggest game in club football."

Alexander-Arnold then revealed that it hit the players when they woke up in Paris, with a few questioning whether they had to go on the parade back in Liverpool that day.

He said: "Alright, we never won. Do we actually need to go on this parade? I think every single player was thinking the same way: this is a bad idea. We won a trophy two weeks and three months ago. Can we start parading it round the city now?

"Up until we started moving on the bus everybody was like, 'this is the wrong idea'. And once it started mate..."

He said of the parade: "It was better than when we won [the Champions League in 2019]. The fans weren't celebrating us winning the Champions League, they were celebrating us as a team. It was so special."

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