Is it ever OK to boo your own players?

Despite the boos, Trent Alexander Arnold applauded the fans at Anfield

In one of the biggest Premier League matches this weekend, champions Liverpool drew with their rivals Arsenal.

During the game, the fans were heard booing, but it wasn't the result that got people annoyed.

Some of the Liverpool fans were booing one of their own players - Trent Alexander-Arnold.

It's because he's announced that he's leaving Liverpool at the end of the season and is expected to join Spanish team, Real Madrid.

Lots of other Liverpool fans responded to the booing by cheering Trent, but is it ever OK for fans to boo their own team or players?

Join in our vote and have your say in the comments too.

Trent, 26, has been a Liverpool FC fan his whole life and joined the club's academy in 2004 when he was first spotted, aged six.

He played his first match for the adult team at 18, has played over 300 times, and in 2023 was made vice-captain.

But now he says he is going to leave Liverpool at the end of the season, calling it "the hardest decision I've ever made in my life."

He added that the club "has been my whole life – my whole world - for 20 years" but said he was looking for a "new challenge, taking myself out of my comfort zone and pushing myself both professionally and personally."

Arne Slot brought Trent Alexander-Arnold on as a substitute

Former Liverpool player and commentator Jamie Carragher didn't agree with the booing but said he could understand it.

"Liverpool supporters think playing for Liverpool is the utmost, and when you're a local player, like Trent is... you can't see yourself as bigger than the club.

"It's sometimes really hard for supporters. You feel like they fall for it every time, that a player loves them and then moves on."

After the match, Trent's teammate, Scotland captain Andy Robertson, said it was "not nice" to hear the boos, but added "you can't tell people how to feel."

Liverpool Manager Arne Slot told BBC Match of the Day that he heard "mixed opinions" and said that "everybody can have their own opinion, and you can express it in any way you want to."

So what do you think - is it OK to boo one of your own players if they've played badly or upset you? Or should it never, ever happen?