“It’s maybe time for the story to end,” said Andy Robertson. But what a story it has been; it will culminate in a fond farewell but it has been an improbable tale. A year after signing from relegated Hull, he played in a Champions League final. A year later, he won one. The player released by his boyhood club, Celtic, went on to become possibly the finest left-back in the world.
For Liverpool, he has been a footballing success, a financial masterstroke. An £8m signing has been, pound for pound, Liverpool’s greatest bargain of the Moneyball era. That £8m has brought 374 appearances. But not too many more, with Robertson revealing on Thursday he will leave Anfield in the summer.
