Monday marks eight years since a young left-back by the name of Andrew Robertson joined Liverpool Football Club.

An unheralded signing from recently relegated Hull City, Robertson set the Reds back just £8m, and was expected to provide competition at left-back for first choice Alberto Moreno.

Ultimately, the Scot proved to be much more than that, and is still going strong having won two Premier League titles, a Champions League, an FA Cup, two League Cups and plenty more besides.

Having chalked up more than 300 appearances for Liverpool, Robertson has proven himself as one of the very best left-backs in the club’s history.

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Initially, however, Robertson could not get into the team.

And when the then 23-year-old turned up for his debut at Anfield on August 19th 2017, few Liverpool fans could have predicted the career he would go on to have.

After 90 minutes in which he was the best player on the pitch as Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 1-0, though, plenty had already been won over.

Most importantly, then Reds boss Jurgen Klopp knew exactly the player he had on his hands.

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If Liverpool fans weren’t convinced by Robertson upon his signing, then the vision of him bombing up and down the wing against Palace certainly helped matters.

Robertson was superb on the day, and having seen his team grind out a slightly nervy win, Klopp made sure he let everyone know it after the game.

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“Alberto [Moreno] had a perfect pre-season and played really well so far, and Robbo was probably not in the best moment,” the old Liverpool manager said via Liverpoolfc.com at full-time.

When you think a little bit about how you would feel if you were playing your first game at Anfield – you cannot be full of joy, there’s a lot of pressure on yourself and he did really well.”

Earlier this summer, there had looked a distinct possibility that it could be the end for Robertson at Liverpool.

With Milos Kerkez signed as the new, up-and-coming young star, the veteran might well have decided to bow out.

Atletico Madrid wanted to sign Robertson, and had he left, the Scotland captain would have left a truly enormous hole.

Of course, with the summer window still open, something else could yet happen and Robertson could depart.

But having seen off the Atletico interest, it now feels more likely that he’ll stay.

Not too many footballers make it eight years at Liverpool, only the very special ones can say that they have.

And, as Klopp knew all that time ago, Robertson is indeed a brilliantly exceptional player.