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When it 'clicked', inspiring the Hendo shuffle and more - five stories from 'Robbo: My Liverpool'

Released today and available to view on-demand [**on All Red Video here**](https://video.liverpoolfc.com), the programme celebrates the legacy Robertson created during the past nine years at Anfield.

There is a cast of contributors who offer their insights and appreciation – and here are five of the tales we particularly enjoyed…

**Why he could not get in the team at first…**

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Things were not plain sailing for Robertson in his early months with the Reds.

Alberto Moreno was in possession of the starting left-back spot and the new No.26 made only three appearances before December.

The man who signed him, Jürgen Klopp, reveals in the film exactly why that was the case and, crucially, how the situation came to change.

The manager had met with Robertson ahead of his transfer from Hull City and explained that his defending was an important area for improvement.

“I said, ‘I love everything about your offensive stuff and I don’t like anything pretty much about your defensive stuff, so we have to find a way, we have to find an agreement,’” recalls Klopp.

“‘We only talk because it’s defensive stuff. If it would be the other way around, we wouldn’t talk.

“‘If you would be a great defender but would be completely useless offensively, we wouldn’t talk, but \[it’s\] because I think I can help you with defensive stuff. But it only works if you let me help you.’

“‘I can tell you what you have to do. You have to do it yourself, I cannot play for you.’ ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah!’ Back in the days, the shy Andy Robertson agreed 100 per cent, ‘Yeah, of course, boss, great, we’ll do that’ and stuff like this.

“So I told him everything and he did nothing, for pretty much half a year!”

A knock on the door of the boss’ office would prove to be the catalyst.

Klopp continues: “He came and asked, ‘What am I doing wrong? What can I do? I work so hard’ and stuff like this.

“‘Oh, oh, stop, you don’t. I mean, yeah, you run around, you do the stuff you like, you do stuff you’re good at, but you didn’t improve a bit defensively.’ ‘Oh, why?’

“‘You still don’t make the last step in the challenge. It’s a simple thing. I cannot play football, I never could but I cannot play football anymore, but even I have a chance to get past you, because of the distance’, football stuff.

“And honestly, it was the last bit, and I told him that before but when I told him before it didn’t click. In that moment I saw it click.

“So, the next day, everything was different. The day after that, Alberto Moreno got injured. And I think we all can say the rest is history.”

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