Andy Robertson will bring down the curtain on a remarkable nine-year career at Liverpool when the current season ends – and he may have already teased his next club. The Scotland captain has confirmed he will depart the Premier League champions when his contract expires this summer. Robertson has won every major trophy available at Anfield – including two Premier League titles and a Champions League – and will leave as one of the Reds’ greatest ever defenders.

The left-back was a bargain £8million signing from Hull City in 2017 but is now on the lookout for a new club. And the 32-year-old may have already given away where he will end up for the 2026-27 season. Speaking four years ago, Robertson confessed a desire to play for Scottish giants Celtic – the club he supports. And the veteran defender insisted he does not want to play for the Hoops at the very end of his career when his best performances are behind him.

He told BT’s Currie Club podcast: “Every time I watch Celtic, I consider it. When you watch them and see a packed Celtic Park… as a fan you always have that dream. Ideally I want to finish my career here at Liverpool. If I can stay at the top of my game, at the top of the tree my whole career, that’s the route I want to go down.

“But also, when I look at Celtic and when I was growing up, I was thinking I wanted to give them my best years. When I was at Queen’s Park I had a dream of still playing with Celtic and always dreamed of giving my best years to Celtic.

“And now I don’t want to go as a 34 or 35-year-old old guy that my uncles start hating on me because I can’t move any more! Time will tell. I’m very much a person who lives in the moment. I don’t look too far ahead and I don’t often look back. There will be a time for that.”

Explaining his decision to leave Liverpool, Robertson said on Thursday night: “I think I feel better now that it’s out in the open. The hardest bit [in] the last certainly couple of weeks and months is some people that are close to me in the training ground don’t know and more importantly, the fans.

“The closer it gets, the more and more questions you start to get. I’ve always said that the fans are the most important people at this club and I just think now is the time to tell them what’s going on and that obviously this will be my last year.

“I just think it’s better being out in the open, that now I can fully focus on the team from now until the end of the season. I think it’s important that I do that, I’ve always done that.

“But the time to have the emotional farewell and tell the fans and the people connected to this club what they mean to me, that will come closer to the end. I don’t think I’m quite ready for that yet. It’s just to try to get it out there so I can now be open and honest with everyone.”

Robertson could reach an agreement with his next club before captaining Scotland at the World Cup this summer. The former Dundee United and Queen’s Park player nearly joined English rivals Tottenham Hotspur in January, only for Arne Slot to veto the transfer.

A lifelong Celtic supporter, Robertson could move to Parkhead 18 years after he was released by his beloved club for being too small. He added: “It’s never easy leaving a club like Liverpool, it has been a huge part of mine and my family’s life for the last nine years. But for me, players move on, other people move on – the thing that stays the same is the club and obviously the fans.

“I’ve had an amazing nine years here. Look, I think it has been well-documented, especially over the last year or so, I’ve had opportunities to leave and I’ve not taken them because of how difficult it is to leave this club. And I wouldn’t change that for the world.

“But I know football moves on, I know teams move on and I think now is the time for me to move on and go wherever my next move is and wherever my career takes me.

“I’ll always look back on amazing memories at this football club, I’ve put my heart and soul into the club for nine years and I’ve not got many regrets. I’ve grown as a man and as a person. This club will always mean the world to me, the fans will mean the world to me. It has been a hell of a journey.”