What does future hold for Robertson with Liverpool & Scotland?

International friendly: Scotland v Iceland

Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow Date: Friday, 6 June Kick-off: 19:45 BST

Coverage: Watch unrecorded connected BBC One Scotland and BBC Sport website & app, online substance updates, perceive connected BBC Radio Scotland

You would forgive Andy Robertson for recoiling astatine the specified notation of the sanction Milos Kerkez.

The Scotland captain's presumption arsenic Liverpool's first-choice left-back - a station helium has had a stranglehold connected for the past 8 seasons - could beryllium nether duress if the Anfield nine get a woody for Bournemouth's Hungary planetary implicit the line.

Club fable Robertson is astir to participate the last twelvemonth of his declaration astatine the property of 31, with galore suggesting Kerkez could beryllium a semipermanent replacement for the two-time Premier League champion and Champions League winner.

"We're not daft, it looks arsenic if a woody could perchance beryllium done," Robertson told BBC Scotland, erstwhile asked astir the Kerkez rumours.

"But, until that is done, I've not adjacent fixed that a 2nd thought. I backmost myself, I've got assurance successful my ain quality and that drives maine forward."

He added: "I've had 8 fantastic years astatine Liverpool successful presumption of winning trophies, being a mainstay successful the team, which I'm incredibly arrogant of.

"I'm not getting immoderate younger, I can't alteration my age, but I inactive judge I've got a batch to springiness and that's what I absorption on. I absorption connected myself - you can't absorption connected different radical oregon who you're competing with.

"I inactive judge I person a hellhole of a batch to springiness for nevertheless galore years I tin support going. My assemblage feels bully astatine the minute. I can't archer you however I'll consciousness astatine 33 oregon 34, but I tin archer you, astatine 31, I consciousness excellent.

"I've been acceptable for each game, I've not missed a grooming league and that's not a motion of idiosyncratic who is slowing down.

"I've got a twelvemonth near astatine Liverpool, I'm looking guardant to a power off, I'm looking guardant to a vacation and past I'll look guardant to pre-season. What the aboriginal holds aft that? I've not fixed it excessively overmuch thought."

In the meantime, Robertson is backmost with his planetary team-mates arsenic they look to bounce backmost from their Nations League play-off decision by Greece successful March.

With friendlies against Iceland and Liechtenstein coming up anterior to the World Cup qualifying run kicking disconnected successful the autumn, immoderate mightiness question whether the seasoned mightiness person been tempted to absent himself from these June games.

But, contempt being the incorrect broadside of 30, Robertson's committment remains arsenic fierce and helium has nary volition of pursuing Celtic skipper Callum McGregor's illustration of focusing solely connected nine football, with the 2 astatine the aforesaid age.

"I deliberation each idiosyncratic is different," helium said. "I know, astatine the Euros, Callum was struggling and had a tougher play successful presumption of injuries and helium made that decision.

"I deliberation successful Scotland he'll beryllium connected the grooming transportation earlier and volition person Champions League qualifiers, truthful they possibly don't get arsenic overmuch clip off.

"You person to marque idiosyncratic choices and Callum made his choice. That was champion for his vocation and he's evidently prioritised trying to play for Celtic arsenic agelong arsenic helium can.

"All I tin accidental is it's not crossed my caput arsenic of yet and I anticipation it doesn't due to the fact that I emotion playing for my country.

"It's the biggest honour successful shot and I've done it 82 times present and I've inactive got that hunger to effort and win and to effort and assistance the young lads.

"There volition beryllium a constituent erstwhile the clip comes, but I inactive judge I've got a bully fig of years left."

Robertson's Scotland caput coach, Steve Clarke, who lifted the Cup Winners' Cup arsenic a 34-year-old astatine Chelsea successful 1998, believes his skipper volition conscionable the situation astatine nine level and proceed to pb his nationalist team.

"If Andy decides to enactment and combat for his place, I'm definite he'll play enough," helium said. "He had to combat truthful hard to person a vocation and to physique connected that.

"I don't spot a diminution successful him. I spot him coming present and playing good and I've watched him a fig of times for Liverpool and I didn't spot immoderate drop.

"Alex McLeish made a large determination erstwhile Andy was rather young and not agelong successful the squad to marque him the captain. When I came in, I saw nary crushed to alteration that captaincy and he's been a fantastic skipper for Scotland."

With Sir Kenny Dalglish's long-standing headdress grounds conscionable 20 appearances away, bash not expect that to beryllium a situation that Robertson volition shirk.