{"id":482015,"date":"2026-03-18T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:52:09","slug":"scottish-gossip-scotland-captain-andy-robertson-shuts-down-transfer-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482015\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Scotland captain Andy Robertson shuts down transfer talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland captain Andy Robertson, 32, shut down talk about his Liverpool future, saying on Tuesday: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the day is the day to discuss that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16051818\/scotland-andy-robertson-blunt-response-liverpool-future-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool&#8217;s former Scotland midfielder Richard Hughes is on a three-strong shortlist to become the new sporting director at Saudi Pro-League club Al-Hilal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/03\/17\/liverpool-chief-richard-hughes-targeted-by-saudi-al-hilal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Telegraph &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish FA will not be rushed into offering national coach Steve Clarke a new contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16052277\/major-update-steve-clarke-scotland-future-new-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former referee Steve Conroy suggests Rangers were denied a &#8220;clear&#8221; penalty for handball against St Mirren&#8217;s Alex Gogic in the Ibrox side&#8217;s 1-0 win on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/rangers-handed-new-referee-penalty-36883812\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts are set to call upon right-back Jordi Altena as they seek to get back to winning ways. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/hearts\/jordi-altenas-hearts-chance-the-tynecastle-team-is-set-to-change-6014881\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Edinburgh Evening News &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Premiership defences will not relish playing against Lachlan Rose, says Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin with the forward to join the Tangerines this summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-united\/5453464\/lachlan-rose-dundee-united-jim-goodwin-torment\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Courier &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New head coach Stephen Robinson wants more young players in the Aberdeen team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressandjournal.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/aberdeen-fc\/6978039\/stephen-robinson-young-players-aberdeen\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Press and Journal &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland captain Andy Robertson, 32, shut down talk about his Liverpool future, saying on Tuesday: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}