Andy Robertson details what Liverpool players really went through after Diogo Jota's death
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That is the reality of it."As footballers we then of course have a duty, we have to move on, we have to keep going and we managed that. For me, some of them who you mention maybe felt they still had more to give to Liverpool."I look back on my nine years and I know I have given absolutely everything.
We have spoken about it but it is just about enjoying the time you have had at Liverpool and we still talk about the stories from then."But they tell me stories about the clubs they are at now. “When we started out the journey Mo Salah didn’t sign as the best player in the world or the best winger in the world."Virgil van Dijk had the potential to be but he wasn't the best centre-back in the world, Alisson wasn't the best goalkeeper in the world, Trent (Alexander-Arnold) wasn't the best right-back in the world."So like all these lads were just coming through: Hendo was still trying to find his feet as captain, in terms of really you know coming into his own."We were all just on this journey from the bottom to the very top altogether and climbing that mountain was the best feeling ever, because every day we were just coming in just knowing we are just getting better and better and better and as a team we're just starting to click."Obviously we could just see everyone improving every single day and I think that was the best thing about it and I always go back to that time; we'd beat teams in the tunnel.Andy Robertson holds aloft the Premier League trophy after Liverpool's 2024/25 title win(Image: Sebastian Frej/Getty Images)"Genuinely, we went into games not as an arrogance not as a cockiness, it was just ‘there's no way we can get beat today if we perform the way we know we can perform’ and we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform to the highest level, but more often than not we've done that."Even when I speak to my Scotland team-mates all of them when they were lining up in the tunnel and looking over they were thinking: ‘We know we're going to need to run our socks off today to get anything’.
That was always what the manager said."If we were 99 percent there's a chance we get beat, if we're at 100 percent I don't think anyone, whatever opponent we're playing, they don't beat us. And that was always what we did in training; the standard of training, the amount of tackles in that – if fans would have probably watched training going: ‘Stop!'"I mean before big games we're all flying in and that was just the way we did it.