Mourinho Experiments with Alexander-Arnold in Midfield Despite Doubts

For years, Trent Alexander-Arnold has carried a question across every club and country he has represented: does his rare passing intelligence belong in midfield, or is it best expressed from the right-back position that shaped him? On Tuesday, Jose Mourinho added his name to the list of managers who have tested the hypothesis, deploying the 27-year-old in the center of the park during Real Madrid's Champions League victory over Inter Milan — and arriving, as others have before him, at an answer that is neither a full yes nor a clean no. The debate endures not because Alexander-Arnold fails in