The Andy Robertson to Celtic rumour appears to have hit overdrive this week.
The speculation surrounding the Champions League winning Liverpool full-back potentially playing for Celtic has cranked up a notch as Robertson’s contract nears its final six months.
The 32-year-old Scotland captain has struggled for game time at Anfield after Liverpool brought in Milos Kerkez to challenge for Celtic-supporting Robertson.
However, with no new contract on the horizon, Chris Sutton has shared why rumours of Robertson heading back to Paradise are ‘different to Kieran Tierney’s’ when he was returning from Arsenal.
Liverpool FC v Aston Villa FC - Premier League
Photo by MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Chris Sutton says Andy Robertson would ‘stroll’ it at Celtic
Robertson is a massive Celtic fan. A product of the Hoops’ youth system, the 32-year-old slipped through the Parkhead net.
And with rumours of a Celtic return rife, Sutton reckons Robertson would cakewalk the Scottish game at the Bhoys.
Sutton told the Record Celtic Podcast, “You’re looking at his physical condition. I mean, you know, what’s happened to him at Liverpool?
“Arne Slot brought Kerkes in to replace him. What happened at the weekend, Kerkes was the sure-fire starter at the start of the season.
MORE CELTIC STORIES
“You know, they spent a fortune on him. And all of a sudden at the weekend, Manchester City, Andy Robertson is back in the team. And I suspect he’ll get a lot more game time at Liverpool.
“Robertson has that experience and has that quality and has that know-how. So I think at 32, he could, you know, he could stroll back to Scotland. And I’m not saying that he will, you know, necessarily find it easy all the time, but he’s too much quality for if he came available.”
Sutton says Celtic ‘would be daft’ not to sign Andy Robertson from Liverpool
And as the conversation continued about Robertson’s age, Sutton says that that should not worry Celtic if they had the chance to sign the Liverpool legend.
Sutton continued, “You’re going on about his age. I think it’s different to Kieran Tierney. Kieran Tierney had injuries before he left for Celtic, didn’t play loads of football at Arsenal, and we talked about maybe psychologically, there’s something there where he has that doubt about his struggle to finish games and maybe he’ll come back and hit the heights, which he has.
“But I think Andy Robertson’s different to Kieran Tierney. If his levels of fitness are there, I mean, Celtic would be daft not to take him.
“I know Liverpool are having a rank-rotten season at this moment in time, but you’ve got a player who was discarded by the manager who’s just come into the team and looks like he’s going to play ahead of how much was Kerkes, £60-odd million, whatever he was.
“Yeah, so you get an opportunity for a player to come back. And he doesn’t seem the type of guy to me who would just want to come back and take a wage and finish playing for his boyhood club.
“He’s always seemed a pretty determined type of guy. And that’s why he’s achieved what he’s achieved.”
Andy Robertson would be some signing if the opportunity presented itself to bring him to Celtic from Liverpool.
Could it happen? Who knows. As Sutton says, who would have thought Tierney would have returned to Celtic when he left Glasgow for Arsenal in 2019?