is coming to the end of his time at Liverpool and the Reds may have a genius plan on how to replace him.
The Scotman’s future was pretty much spelled out by how the club handled the January window.
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Liverpool were clearly open to letting him go to Tottenham, which tells you everything about where things stand.
The only reason the deal didn’t happen was because injuries piled up and they couldn’t bring Kostas Tsimikas back in, so they had to keep Robertson around.
If Liverpool really wanted to keep him, they wouldn’t have even thought about selling him. Now he’s got less than six months left on his contract, and it just feels inevitable that he’ll leave on a free.
He’ll have plenty of options. He may be discarded by Liverpool, but someone with his experience and quality won’t be short of offers, and let’s be honest – he can probably do better than Spurs right now.
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Atlético Madrid have been linked before, and there’s always that idea of a return to Celtic.
For Liverpool though, replacing him won’t be easy, especially since Tsimikas doesn’t look like part of the long-term plan either.
If Tsimikas goes, Liverpool will have just one left-back remaining in Milos Kerkez. Someone will need to come in and replace Robertson as a back-up.
To do this, Liverpool could enter the market? But Richard Hughes has so many other priorities. He needs new centre-backs, midfielders and wingers.
It would be much easier to look at a replacement from within, and it looks like that is what Liverpool are lining up in a genius move.
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Luke Chambers has been struggling with a few injuries over the last year or so, which is a shame because he was making a real breakthrough prior to Arne Slot’s arrival in the Liverpool first-team.
Chambers played three games in the Europa League under Jurgen Klopp and then enjoyed a successful loan spell with Wigan Athletic in League One.
At the time, Chambers was even linked with a move to Bayer Leverkusen, who were managed by Xabi Alonso back then.
Since Slot’s been in charge, Chambers hasn’t really had the opportunity to make his mark but he was sent out on loan to Charlton Athletic in the January window, where he is getting his career back on track and showing he may just be ready to return and play a role at Liverpool.
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Chambers has immediately slotted into Charlton’s starting line-up and has started 11 of 12 possible matches so far, playing well in almost all of them.
Overall, he is is winning 61.7% of his 6.28 defensive duels per 90 minutes, which is a really solid return. He’s proven to be an extremely valuable player in the build-up for Charlton, constantly looking to play the ball forward.
He completes 1.5 long passes per 90 minutes, and averages 8.5 forward passes, with 32% of his passes being vertical, which is an impressive rate.
At 21-years-old, he’s still really young and his profile is ideal to have as a back-up because he offers something different to Kerkez but also because he is very versatile.
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