<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite negotiations between the clubs and the player’s apparent desire to seek new challenges, the Reds’ hierarchy took a late turn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Transfer insider Ben Jacobs has shared the latest developments regarding ‘X’ and has made it clear that although a move is close, the risk of him leaving is too high given Liverpool’s current defensive situation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Andy Robertson will remain at Liverpool as is. Liverpool do not feel they are in a position to sell him at this time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Liverpool considered an offer from Spurs worth over \u00a35 million including add-ons, and also considered recalling Kostas Tsimikas, but have decided not to proceed at this time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Robertson behaved professionally throughout the negotiations. Although he was open to Spurs, he did not budge for a move.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It has been suggested that Liverpool’s approval of Robertson’s move to Tottenham could lay the groundwork for a summer move for Micky van de Ven.<\/p>\n However, with the Reds backing out of the deal, the Merseyside club may not be able to establish that advantage in future negotiations.<\/p>\n Since joining from Hull City in 2017, Robertson has been at the heart of Liverpool’s defense and has won every major trophy.<\/p>\n By keeping him for the final six months of his contract, Liverpool ensured the Anfield fan favorite received a well-deserved grand farewell at the end of the season.<\/p>\n His veteran presence and leadership will be essential, even if he currently plays second fiddle to Kerkes, as the club still fights for a top-four finish and European honors.<\/p>\n For Liverpool fans, seeing their ‘working class hero’ finish the season in red was a fitting conclusion to his legendary Merseyside story.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite negotiations between the clubs and the player’s apparent desire to seek new challenges, the Reds’ hierarchy took a late turn. Transfer insider Ben Jacobs has shared the latest developments regarding ‘X’ and has made it clear that although a move is close, the risk of him leaving is too high given Liverpool’s current defensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-39024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n
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