The chances seemed rather low that Juventus swooping in at the last minute and trying to make departing Liverpool fullback Andy Robertson re-think his expected choice of going to Tottenham Hotspur after Spurs narrowly avoided relegation to the English Championship on the final day of the 2025-26 season.
That’s because they were.
According to Fabrizio Romano on Wednesday, Robertson has indeed reached a verbal agreement on a contract with Spurs and will be playing at the Tottenham Stadium come next season.
Robertson has been a target of Spurs since January, according to Romano, and they have been the odds-on favorite to be his next club regardless of other rumors that have popped up over the last few weeks. That includes the recent report about Juve’s last-ditch attempt to bring Robertson to Turin earlier this week, something that seemed rather unlikely considering Spurs are now safe and won’t be relegated.
Last weekend, Robertson celebrated his final appearance with Liverpool at Anfield in the Reds’ season finale.
So everybody who thought something along the lines of “Yeah, this ain’t going to happen” … congratulations! Because this was a very last-ditch effort to try and hijack a deal that was pretty much in place no matter what Juventus actually tried to do.
Would some depth at left back been nice in the form of a free transfer? Sure, but maybe not in the form of a 32-year-old free agent who has shown over the past couple of years that he is very much on the decline. Robertson spent most of the 2025-26 season as a part-time starter at best even though Liverpool were going through a host of defensive issues from the opening week of their Premier League title defense until last weekend’s finale.
That probably tells you all you need to know.
He’s probably still a solid squad player and will bring some things to Spurs that they have lacked the last couple of seasons as they have toiled around the relegation zone. But expecting him to suddenly drop everything and move to Italy after all signs pointed to him going to Tottenham for weeks now was a little too far fetched.
So it’s onto the next target at left back for Juventus. Who knows where it will take us.
