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Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton believes Andy Robertson has too much quality for the Scottish team to turn down, should the opportunity arise to sign him next summer.
Robertson is well into the final year of his Liverpool contract and lost his place in Arne Slot's team at the start of the season following the arrival of Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth. Robertson has since reclaimed his place in the side following a difficult start to the season for Kerkez, but it remains to be seen whether the Reds might look to keep Robertson beyond 2026.
Robertson was picked up by Celtic as a schoolboy but was released before making it to the senior side, as he was deemed to be too small to make it at the time.
There has been speculation that Robertson could return to the city of Glasgow as a free agent in the summer, and Sutton thinks Celtic should jump at the opportunity to make that move happen.
“You know, they (Liverpool) spent a fortune on him (Kerkez)," Sutton said on the Record Celtic podcast. "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 stroll back to Scotland. And I’m not saying that he will necessarily find it easy all the time, but he’s too much quality for if he came available.”
Celtic signed a left-back from another giant English club earlier this year as Kieran Tierney joined the Hoops on a free transfer.
Tierney is three years younger than Robertson, but Sutton does not believe that should put Celtic off from signing Robertson.
“I think Andy Robertson’s different to Kieran Tierney," Sutton added. "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 Kerkez, £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.”
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