How Andy Robertson emerged from the shadows to become Liverpool's secret weapon

Andy Robertson

"In fairness, they’re just not very good... But there’s one who can potentially be super, super, super good – and that’s Robertson.”

So went Hatem Ben Arfa’s assessment of the Hull squad of 2014/15. While his own, failed spell at the KCOM Stadium serves as more proof of a career unfulfilled, the mercurial Frenchman was astute in his projection of Andy Robertson’s development.

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Jack Lusby writes for This Is Anfield, the independent Liverpool website, and has been a regular FourFourTwo contributor since 2018. He is an expert on Liverpool's youth academy players and has a keen eye on ensuring transfer stories are sourced correctly, which means he is a proficient user of Google Translate.