What does future hold for Robertson with Liverpool & Scotland?

International friendly: Scotland v Iceland

Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow Date: Friday, 6 June Kick-off: 19:45 BST

Coverage: Watch unrecorded connected BBC One Scotland and BBC Sport website & app, online matter updates, perceive connected BBC Radio Scotland

You would forgive Andy Robertson for recoiling astatine nan specified mention of nan sanction Milos Kerkez.

The Scotland captain's position arsenic Liverpool's first-choice left-back - a station he has had a stranglehold connected for nan past 8 seasons - could beryllium nether duress if nan Anfield nine get a woody for Bournemouth's Hungary world complete nan line.

Club fable Robertson is astir to participate nan last twelvemonth of his statement astatine nan property of 31, pinch galore suggesting Kerkez could beryllium a semipermanent replacement for nan two-time Premier League champion and Champions League winner.

"We're not daft, it looks arsenic if a woody could perchance beryllium done," Robertson told BBC Scotland, erstwhile asked astir nan Kerkez rumours.

"But, until that is done, I've not moreover fixed that a 2nd thought. I backmost myself, I've sewage assurance successful my ain expertise and that drives maine forward."

He added: "I've had 8 awesome years astatine Liverpool successful position of winning trophies, being a champion successful nan team, which I'm incredibly proud of.

"I'm not getting immoderate younger, I can't alteration my age, but I still judge I've sewage a batch to springiness and that's what I attraction on. I attraction connected myself - you can't attraction connected different group aliases who you're competing with.

"I still judge I person a hellhole of a batch to springiness for nevertheless galore years I tin support going. My assemblage feels bully astatine nan minute. I can't show you really I'll consciousness astatine 33 aliases 34, but I tin show you, astatine 31, I consciousness excellent.

"I've been fresh for each game, I've not missed a training convention and that's not a motion of personification who is slowing down.

"I've sewage a twelvemonth near astatine Liverpool, I'm looking guardant to a move off, I'm looking guardant to a vacation and past I'll look guardant to pre-season. What nan early holds aft that? I've not fixed it excessively overmuch thought."

In nan meantime, Robertson is backmost pinch his world team-mates arsenic they look to bounce backmost from their Nations League play-off conclusion by Greece successful March.

With friendlies against Iceland and Liechtenstein coming up anterior to nan World Cup qualifying run kicking disconnected successful nan autumn, immoderate mightiness mobility whether nan seasoned mightiness person been tempted to absent himself from these June games.

But, contempt being nan incorrect broadside of 30, Robertson's committment remains arsenic fierce and he has nary volition of pursuing Celtic skipper Callum McGregor's illustration of focusing solely connected nine football, pinch nan 2 astatine nan aforesaid age.

"I deliberation each individual is different," he said. "I know, astatine nan Euros, Callum was struggling and had a tougher play successful position of injuries and he made that decision.

"I deliberation successful Scotland he'll beryllium connected nan training transportation earlier and will person Champions League qualifiers, truthful they possibly don't get arsenic overmuch clip off.

"You person to make individual choices and Callum made his choice. That was champion for his profession and he's evidently prioritised trying to play for Celtic arsenic agelong arsenic he can.

"All I tin opportunity is it's not crossed my mind arsenic of yet and I dream it doesn't because I emotion playing for my country.

"It's nan biggest honour successful shot and I've done it 82 times now and I've still sewage that hunger to effort and win and to effort and thief nan young lads.

"There will beryllium a constituent erstwhile nan clip comes, but I still judge I've sewage a bully number of years left."

Robertson's Scotland caput coach, Steve Clarke, who lifted nan Cup Winners' Cup arsenic a 34-year-old astatine Chelsea successful 1998, believes his skipper will meet nan situation astatine nine level and proceed to lead his nationalist team.

"If Andy decides to enactment and conflict for his place, I'm judge he'll play enough," he said. "He had to conflict truthful difficult to person a profession and to build connected that.

"I don't spot a diminution successful him. I spot him coming present and playing good and I've watched him a number of times for Liverpool and I didn't spot immoderate drop.

"Alex McLeish made a large determination erstwhile Andy was rather young and not agelong successful nan squad to make him nan captain. When I came in, I saw nary logic to alteration that captaincy and he's been a awesome skipper for Scotland."

With Sir Kenny Dalglish's long-standing headdress grounds conscionable 20 appearances away, do not expect that to beryllium a situation that Robertson will shirk.