Andy Robertson has had an awe-inspiring spell with the club since his arrival from Hull City in 2017.
Winning every significant trophy on offer, including the Champions League and Premier League, he's etched his name into Anfield folklore despite recent dips in form and battling through an injury-laden 2023/24 season.
The tenacious left-back, now 30, has clocked up 318 appearances for the Merseyside outfit, contributing 11 goals and an impressive 66 assists, making him an emblematic figure for Liverpool rather than Queen's Park, Dundee United or Hull City, his previous clubs.
Yet, Robertson's career could have taken a very different path; he was once within touching distance of joining Everton, Liverpool's fierce local adversaries. Reminiscing about his journey to the Premier League with Hull in July 2014, Robertson disclosed to Premier League Stories.
"Obviously in January I had a bit of interest. Everton tried," he said. "I knew there was Premier League interest, but yeah, I just didn't think about it, I just lived in the moment and didn't really think too far ahead."
David Moyes has shared a tale of what could have been, recounting on The Overlap podcast how he almost secured Andy Robertson for Sunderland just before the left-back's transformative move to Liverpool. "Andy Robertson, if you remember, left Scotland, Queen's Park, to go to Hull City," Moyes said. "I actually thought I'd done a deal to get him to come to Sunderland."
He added, "I was the manager at Sunderland at the time, and I met his agents and tried to sort out a deal to get him to come from Hull to Sunderland, but at that time, Hull and Sunderland were both near the bottom of the league and in competition, so we didn't get him. But there's a million hard luck stories in football."