Liverpool shares a special relationship with Scotland.
Bill Shankly is, of course, the founding father of the club in its modern-day guise and in just one of its 20 top-flight title-winning seasons (1976-77) has a Scot not made a single appearance.
Today, Robertson sits in the company of Liverpool’s greatest Scottish players, but he remembers initially feeling a little overawed by the prospect of following such illustrious predecessors.
“I wanted to prove that I could play at that level because, let’s be honest, there were some fans that were maybe excited about me but a lot of fans were probably underwhelmed that I was coming, £8 million from Hull, it wasn’t the biggest of signings and things like that!” he recalls of his first ambitions upon signing for the Reds in 2017.
“So, I just wanted to prove to myself and prove to everyone else that I could play at the highest level. But then I would say even in the first week of me being at the club you bump into people, you’re staying in the hotel, you have interactions with people within the hotel.
“I knew Liverpool was one of the biggest clubs in the world, of course I did, but I saw then how much they wanted to win, and especially win the Premier League.
“I think any time when we signed anyone back then, the one thing was, ‘Well, hopefully you bring us luck for the Premier League,’ and that was always any Scouser or any Liverpool fan you bumped into, that was what they said.
“So then, from a team’s perspective, I wanted to achieve great things as a team [and] also... there’s always a stat about Scottish players being in the squad and they always win trophies with that.
“Somebody sent me that quite early doors and I’m looking at the list going, ‘Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen, Graeme Souness…’ and thinking, ‘How am I going to live up to this?! It’s a bit unfair for me to be put in this category!’
“So, then I was thinking, ‘Oh, maybe I could be the next Scotsman that could go and do that.’
“Then I wanted to win as many trophies as I could and I think we could see the team that was building, [with] an unbelievable manager, and I think slowly but surely the belief started to come that we could be the team to deliver it.”