Robertson wants to ´focus on football´ amid Liverpool takeover talk

Andrew Robertson says Liverpool’s players will “just focus on playing” amid talk of the Premier League giants being up for sale.

Fenway Sports Group is looking for outside investment to help pursue the club’s goals, while also being open to the possibility of a full sale.

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Robertson said he and his team-mates cannot be distracted by talk of a potential takeover, with the Premier League season set to resume following the World Cup, which concludes in Qatar on Sunday.

“Honestly, we just focus on playing football,” he said. “Obviously you see the stuff in the press and you see stuff around potential new buyers or that the club has been put up for sale and things like that, but we can’t control it.

“All we can do is play football, all we can do is control what is on the pitch. There’s enough work on the pitch for us to not have to worry about anything else and yes, whatever else happens [with the owners] will happen.”

Liverpool are on a warm-weather training camp in Dubai after a frustrating start to the 2022-23 season where they won just six of their 14 league games (D4, L4), only winning their first away game in the league at Tottenham in November.

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After finishing one point behind Manchester City in the title race and losing 1-0 to Real Madrid in the Champions League final last season, Liverpool came agonisingly close to completing a unique quadruple, having won the EFL Cup and FA Cup.

However, they have already lost more league games this season (four) than in 2021-22 (two), and Robertson acknowledged they must rediscover their consistency if they are to recover their campaign, particularly away from home.

“I think over the past few years, one of the things you can say about this team is that we’ve been so consistent – we’ve just lacked that a bit this season,” he said.

“The setbacks have been too common for a team like us that people have become used to us not dropping too many points.

“Our away form has not been where it needs to be. Obviously away from home in the Champions League we did well at Rangers [7-1 win] and Ajax [3-0 win], but it’s not quite been to the standard we need to be in the Premier League.

“Home games are important and we have to take care of those but to compete in this league, to go for the Champions League places or the league itself you need to be winning away games and we haven’t quite done that.

“It’s been a wee bit inconsistent, which isn’t like us, and it’s important now that we get that consistency back for the second half of the season. That’s the only way we will get the points we need and start climbing the table.

“We’re obviously not in a position where we want to be.”