He absolutely does deserve that wage. Honestly people need to get a grip, the casual way they are happy to just let the likes of Trent, Robbo and Salah go. These are world class players and there is a reason we have no other world class players under 30. These players are our x factor, lose them and we are on the level of Spurs and co.
But we have no control over what happens. I don’t want to lose them, but I’m not gonna to worry about something I have no control over.
Players have most (if not all) of the cards with contract negotiations these days. They can pretty much choose to run down their contracts if that’s what they want to do and if they know there is plenty of interest in them and we don’t really want to sell, it’s a pretty good negotiating tactic. I suspect Trent is just trying to get himself the best contract he can, and is putting himself in the best position to do that.
As a Liverpool lad and supporter the club will know he ideally doesn’t want to leave which weakens his position, so this could be his way of strengthening it