Well, this one has been in the works for a while and according to Fabrizio Romano, it\u2019s a done deal \u2014 Andrew Robertson will be signing with Tottenham Hotspur momentarily after reaching full agreement on personal terms with the club. Robertson, a Scotland international fullback, is leaving Liverpool upon the expiration of his contract and will sign with Spurs on a free transfer.<\/p>\n
Robertson is a good player and will probably be competing with Destiny Udogie next season at left back, but the real thing he brings to Spurs, according to all the previous reports, are things like experience and leadership and capability. All good things, to be fair! Robertson has lost a step from his peak years at Liverpool and that\u2019s a little scary, but the one thing he does know how to do is pick out a good pass, and that\u2019s something Spurs really really really need.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no word yet on the length of the contract or Robertson\u2019s wages. Robertson reportedly earned \u00a3160k\/wk at Liverpool and who knows if we offered a bump in his wages \u2014 if you listen to Vinai Venkatesham then Spurs have already overhauled and raised their wage cap going forward, so I\u2019d expect he\u2019ll make at least that much at Spurs this coming season, possibly more.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure this is a signing that I would\u2019ve gone for if it were me, but I don\u2019t hate it necessarily. If nothing else having a competent natural LB to come in when Udogie\u2019s glass ankles break again will be a good thing. And I can\u2019t remember the last time we had a Scot on the team \u2014 Alan Hutton, maybe? Boy, that takes me back.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll wait for the official announcement, which I expect will come soon, or perhaps when the window officially opens in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, this one has been in the works for a while and according to Fabrizio Romano, it\u2019s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,52146,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607303","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=607303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}