Liverpool’s Andy Robertson has expressed his desire to extend his contract with the club beyond 2026, insisting he still has the quality to justify staying beyond his current terms.
By the end of this season, Robertson will have just 12 months left on his deal. Despite facing some challenges throughout the campaign, he has made 30 Premier League appearances as a left-back for Liverpool, who have kept a division-high 14 clean sheets.
Despite ongoing rumours linking Liverpool with Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez, who is 10 years Robertson’s junior, the 31-year-old Scotland captain remains confident in his ability to contribute to Arne Slot’s team as they head into the summer transfer window as Premier League champions.
During a conversation with Reds legend Jamie Carragher at Football For Change’s charity lunch at Hope Street Hotel in the city centre, Robertson emphasized his belief that he can continue to be a key player for Slot as the squad prepares for their next chapter as champions.
“I have only got a year left,” Robertson stated. “So I hope all you guys (the fans) can help me with making the same noise around a new contract as you did with Mo [Salah] and Virgil’s [van Dijk]! Maybe you (Carragher) can stop linking the club with other left-backs as well!
“No look, I’ve had eight wonderful years so far and I have a year left. I am not as young as I once was but I love this club and I have had some great memories here, so let’s see what the future holds.
“I still believe I can still produce good performances and some really good performances and I think I have done that this season, so I still think I can produce at the top level and if I can do that then that is where I belong and hopefully I can stay here for many years to come.”
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Robertson reflects on Liverpool’s recent successes with a sense of pride and hope for continued dominance under Slot’s leadership. The left-back exclaims: “That is what we hope. It is so competitive now in terms of the teams who are involved and our team under Jurgen [Klopp] was unbelievable at times.
“And if you look at the points we racked up and lost out on two league titles and then the one we wrapped up (in 2020), Champions League finals and stuff like that, it is something we’re all proud of for how far we went but we also believe that we should have had more.
“And I think that is what has driven those lads who were part of that forward for this kind of new era. For lads like myself, Mo, Virgil, Ali, Trent, Joey Gomez, we have used it as a driving force and we want to experience winning the Premier League with the fans. We want to have that moment.
“You know, 2020 was special in a different way, we lifted it on the Kop and in a strange way it felt as though the fans were with us when of course they weren’t.
“But this time we will get a full house and the parade that we all deserve and I think that is what has been driving us forward. The lads’ experiences have been key to that and I think we are all singing from the same hymn sheet.”
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When asked about the moment he believed Liverpool could clinch their 20th English championship, Robertson pointed to the 2-0 victory over Brentford in January, secured by two late goals from substitute Darwin Nunez.
That win put Slot’s squad seven points ahead before Arsenal was held to a 2-2 draw later that day by Aston Villa. Robertson remembers being struck by the significance of the result as he left the pitch at the Gtech Community Stadium that day.
“Off the top of my head, I think of Brentford away,” Robertson said. “I just think in the Premier League, you always have to have results where it looks like it is going one way and it goes another. I think we obviously made two super subs on 60 minutes when me and Darwin came on…I am not sure I’ll get the credit that Darwin will!
“But no, look, we were obviously struggling in the game, it was 0-0 and we needed something off the bench and maybe Darwin has been in a similar boat to Harvey Elliott where they haven’t played as much as they would have liked. Or started as many games, but the impact they have had at times and the impact Harvey made in that [Brentford] game too, he was unbelievable.
“It just felt like walking off that pitch, it was a difficult game and you’ve won it 2-0, it just felt like now is the time to believe that we could do it and that was the start of a really good period for us.”
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