Kop new boy Andy says ‘I was ready to
LIVERPOOL’S new £10million man Andy Robertson considered walking away from football after failing to make the grade at Celtic.
After completing a dream move from Hull to Liverpool, the Scotland star spoke about his rejection by the Hoops as a 15-year-old before being thrown a lifeline at Queen’s Park.
The 23-year-old’s meteoric rise from the scrapheap to Jurgen Klopp’s Champions League squad is one he insists reached a crossroads as a disillusioned teenager.
He said: “I went to every Celtic game home and away and to get released from your boyhood heroes, it’s hard.
“The next season at Queen’s Park, the way I was playing, I wasn’t myself and I did think about chucking it, it would be a lie if I said I never thought about that.
“But the next season they gave me faith and I managed to get my confidence back and I just kicked on from there.
“My dream was always to become a professional footballer. Luckily in the one season I was in the Queen’s Park first team my mum and dad backed me financially as well and said you can