When Andrew Robertson arrives for his Liverpool medical today, he will have no inkling he could be the most important signing of the Jurgen Klopp era.

Forget Sadio Mane or Mohamed Salah. Never mind if RB Leipzig eventually grasp the insanity of rejecting £66 million for Naby Keita, Virgil Van Dijk takes his appeal to be released from Southampton to Amnesty International or even Kylian Mbappe fancies a couple of years on Merseyside before he settles in Madrid.

Robertson has something more valuable than any of these players: a Scottish birth certificate. History tells us Liverpool are far more fashionable when donning a touch of Tartan silk. Robertson extends a tradition sadly undermined since Liverpool’s golden era.

Of their 18 league titles dating back to the 1901, only once was the feat achieved without a Scot either inspiring on the pitch or leading them off it. Even the exception – Bob Paisley’s title and European Cup winning team of 1977 – had Peter Cormack in the squad at the start of the season.