Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has been blown away by the progress made by left back Andrew Robertson after he was appointed Scotland captain.
The 24-year-old, on a reported £50,000-per-week at Anfield [Source: Spotrac], has been a key player for the Reds over the last year or so, and Klopp believes he will only get better.
“Andy is a fantastic fella, he’s very smart and can definitely be a leader for the future,” he said, as quoted by the Daily Star. “He has made big steps in the last two years since we’ve worked together and really big steps in the last four or five years, since he started his career properly.
“It’s a really nice story and he’s now the Braveheart for Scotland. He can handle the responsibility of being captain. He’s still young but he’s already a leader and he’ll be even better in the future.”
OPINION
Robertson’s rise has flown under the radar for a lot of people but he is now starting to receive the plaudits he deserves. He came into the Liverpool backline last season and solved what had long been a problem position for them at left back, and has continued his fine form at the start of this season. In Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold Klopp now has two excellent full backs who offer his team so much going forward as well as defensively. The Scotland captaincy is the least the former Hull City man deserves, and at 24 years of age he could be wearing that armband for the next decade. Klopp obviously thinks very highly of him, and expects him to get even better both as a player and as a leader in the future. That’s great to hear if you’re a Liverpool fan, and Reds supporters should be just as excited as Klopp about their very own ‘Braveheart’.
