Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce signed Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson when he was at Hull City.
Bruce signed Robertson from Dundee United in the summer of 2014 for Hull City for a transfer fee reported by FourFourTwo to be worth £2.85 million.
The 25-year-old left-back has since developed into one of the best left-backs in the Europe and has been playing well for Liverpool since his move to the Reds from Hull in the summer of 2017.
Now valued at €90 million (£79.88m) by the CIES Football Observatory, Robertson has been praised by Newcastle boss Bruce.
Bruce told FourFourTwo: “Stan Ternent, my chief scout at the time, said ‘I’ve just seen this kid at Dundee United – we’ve got to take him’.
“We did our homework. I went to see him and we took him. It was a little bit of a gamble. I remember him arriving with his mum holding her hand!
“To be fair to him, we had a couple of injuries and I threw him in. He went in at left-back and had an unbelievable debut against QPR. He hasn’t looked back, has he? He’s been quite remarkable.”
Good signing for Liverpool
Robertson has proved to be a brilliant signing for Liverpool, especially as the Reds paid Hull an initial transfer fee of £8m for the Scotland international, as reported on BBC Sport.
The left-back is very good going on the attack, and he is also adept at defending and knows his role in Jurgen Klopp’s team fully well.
Robertson is only 25 years of age, and he will improve and progress even further.
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