{"id":429931,"date":"2026-01-26T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:07:07","slug":"andy-robertson-to-stay-at-liverpool-after-tottenham-move-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429931\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Robertson to stay at Liverpool after Tottenham move collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 25, 2026, 05:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> have pulled out of talks with Tottenham over their approach for veteran full-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/player\/_\/id\/104943\/andrew-robertson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Robertson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Londoners made their move late last week as under-pressure boss Thomas Frank sought to add some much-needed experience to his squad.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool listened to the approach in recognition of Robertson&#8217;s contribution to the club in the last eight-and-a-half years and the fact he is out of contract in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Andy Robertson is set to stay at Liverpool.\u00a0Photo by Michael Steele\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Press Association understands the club have decided against continuing negotiations over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"cc39ec4a-4e7a-5018-879a-7128a89b4028\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> captain, who turns 32 in March, after considering their options. Sources have confirmed to ESPN that the club does not want to part ways with Robertson. He had not asked for a move.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has started only four <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> matches this season, having lost his place to <a data-player-guid=\"91151e5b-8274-3eae-8ac4-d7779e62af6a\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/323110\/milos-kerkez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Kerkez<\/a>, but has been in the starting line-up for four of their seven Champions League fixtures &#8212; including high-profile matches against both Madrid clubs Real and Atletico and Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool&#8217;s vice-captain came off the bench for the start of the second half of Saturday&#8217;s defeat at Bournemouth, with head coach Arne Slot later revealing Kerkez had been withdrawn as he was considered in the &#8220;red zone&#8221; &#8212; when players are at most risk of injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47617744\/andy-robertson-admits-lack-clarity-liverpool-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Andy Robertson admits lack of clarity about Liverpool future<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47723210\/no-problem-liverpool-togetherness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Virgil van Dijk: No problem with Liverpool &#8216;togetherness&#8217;<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47717597\/liverpools-inconsistencies-never-more-apparent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8211; Liverpool&#8217;s inconsistencies have never been made more apparent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slot has already lost defenders <a data-player-guid=\"cabe833a-2edb-3691-bc6d-aa9033efeb27\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/250183\/conor-bradley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Bradley<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"574f8cc8-b10d-32ae-b286-0f24bfeaf6e9\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/380082\/giovanni-leoni\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Leoni<\/a> to season-ending injuries while <a data-player-guid=\"0d029e41-3ff8-5297-93d6-228603fce1bf\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/102053\/joe-gomez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Gomez<\/a>, who has had his share of injury issues, was forced off in the first half against the Cherries after a collision with goalkeeper <a data-player-guid=\"9d210b21-9daf-b76a-0d85-235471ad36a0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/196876\/alisson-becker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alisson Becker<\/a> which is hoped to be just bruising to his knee.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow centre-back <a data-player-guid=\"ffcffb8d-afa2-bae4-621c-ee7296909896\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/251634\/ibrahima-konate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a> has missed the last two matches following the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Captain <a data-player-guid=\"c350cf83-87c2-aedd-b25b-7e9f3f3fa4dd\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/157892\/virgil-van-dijk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virgil van Dijk<\/a> stated after the match he did not want Robertson to leave, while Slot said he wanted to keep all his players as they are still in contention in the Champions League and FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Beth Lindop contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 25, 2026, 05:03 PM ET Liverpool have pulled out of talks with Tottenham over their approach for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-429931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}