{"id":484726,"date":"2026-06-05T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484726\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:39:12","slug":"tottenham-sign-robertson-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484726\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham sign Robertson on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham have announced the signing of former Liverpool defender Andy Robertson on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland captain Robertson was close to a move to Spurs in January, but Liverpool were unable to bring back Kostas Tsimikas from his loan at Roma and pulled the plug on the switch.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Tottenham have since changed manager, Roberto De Zerbi has given the green light for Robertson to join on 1 July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0409\/1567462-robertson-will-leave-liverpool-at-end-of-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after he made the decision to leave Anfield at the expiration of his contract<\/a> this month after 378 appearances for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>De Zerbi said: &#8220;Andy is someone I&#8217;ve admired for a number of years and he will bring outstanding technical qualities, experience, leadership and mentality to our team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a proven winner at the highest level over a long period and is someone who can be a big player for us, both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t wait to start working with him and seeing the positive impact he will have on everyone around him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Republic of Ireland v Netherlands in FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifying on Friday from 7pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to commentary on Inside Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 <\/p>\n<p>Watch Canada v Republic of Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning (12.15am) on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham have announced the signing of former Liverpool defender Andy Robertson on a free transfer. Scotland captain Robertson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-484726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}