Andy Robertson is preparing for his Anfield farewell when Liverpool face Brentford on Sunday.Ahead of his final appearance for the club, the Scottish left-back sat down with a number of Merseyside reporters to reflect on the glorious highs and crushing lows of his nine-year spell on Merseyside. Here is the best of the conversation.Are you gutted it’s nearly over or proud how it’s gone?Robertson: A bit of both. I’ve been able to reflect these past couple of weeks probably more than I’d ever allowed myself to before, and I don’t think anyone can deny I’ve given absolutely everything to this football club.When I first walked through that door, that is what I wanted the most. I didn’t know if I was going to be successful, I didn’t know if I was going to be good enough and I didn’t know if I would win trophies. But what I did promise myself was I’m going to give 100 per cent every single day to have the best possible chance to be successful.That’s what I’m most proud about, and obviously everything else that followed in terms of trophies and the amazing nights I’ve had.Andy Robertson lifts the Premier League trophy at the end of the 2024-25 campaign (Carl Recine/Getty Images)Who did you speak to before deciding the time was right to leave?Robertson: My wife, first and foremost. I am the one that goes through it all publicly, but she’s the one who goes through it all privately, in terms of allowing me to go and achieve my dreams. I kept the circle pretty small because when you start talking to too many people you can have all sorts of different emotions. I always speak to my mum and dad, but it was more talking through what I was thinking instead of getting their opinion.And then there were the people I became close to along the way: James Milner, Jordan Henderson, people like that.It was a mutual decision between myself and the club. I made it pretty clear I am not ready to be sitting on the bench right now. I have still played a good few games this season, but not as much as I’m used to and I am still only 32. I have still got a lot to achieve. That couldn’t quite match up here and then, on the back of that, there was obviously no contract offer.You know me and (sporting director) Richard Hughes had discussions, me and (FSG president) Mike Gordon even had talks as well. The relationships have always been really good, and it was important for me to keep it that way. I leave with no regrets, no bitterness, nothing like that.I am really happy with the journey I have had.Andy Robertson is leaving with no bitterness (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)What does it mean to you to get the chance to have a proper farewell?Robertson: Yeah, it means a lot. It’s probably more important for my family. That’s the way I’m trying to think about Sunday. It’s more important for my kids to see and experience that.I’m delighted that I won’t be the only one doing it. That was my worry — being front and centre of the whole thing. I’m glad that one of our Egyptian friends (Mohamed Salah) might take a bit more of the limelight. I can just sneak underneath that. Obviously the farewell will be emotional. It’s my last time at Anfield and we’ve got a player on the opposition team, well probably two actually, but one in particular who should have got a proper farewell.I really hope Hendo (Jordan Henderson) gets a pretty special ovation on Sunday. What he did for this football club, how he led us to win those trophies, he was instrumental in that. There was the way he left and things like that… I really hope that, during the game, the fans can show their appreciation to the captain who made it all possible. And I’m sure when Caoimhin (Kelleher) runs to the Kop, he will get a pretty loud cheer which he deserves as well.You hardly played in those opening months of the season after arriving from Hull City in 2017. Do you ever wonder how things would have worked out if you hadn’t gone knocking on Klopp’s office door?Robertson: I do, yeah. Oh, I was s******* myself! It was getting to a point where I had to say something. It wasn’t confrontational, I wasn’t having a go — and that is why the conversation was so good. I asked him: ‘What do I need to do to get in your team?’ He thought it was obvious.I just went in the next day and thought: ‘Everything he has said to me, defensively, I am going to do. If I fail, I fail.’No disrespect to Hull but I was coming from a team that had been used to playing in a low block. We played 3-5-2 or 4-5-1. I came to a team that needed the ball back as quick as they could and were having 80 per cent possession, so that was a big change for me. After that conversation, everything clicked. I took the attitude of: ‘I’m at Liverpool Football Club and I’m going to do everything I can to make this work.’Andy Robertson sought out Jurgen Klopp to ascertain what he had to do to play more regularly at Liverpool (Paul Ellis/AFP vis Getty Images)As well as all the assists and all the trophies, the fans will remember you relentlessly pressing half the Manchester City team at Anfield in 2018….Robertson: I still don’t think it’s a foul! I’ve watched it enough times — I’m a wee bit annoyed about that. Everyone still talks about it because I think that was the moment people could see I could potentially be the left-back for years to come.That was a moment in a big game against the best team in the world at that time. That was the game where I really felt: ‘I belong at this football club, I’m worthy of being here.’ I look back with a massive smile on my face because it’s the moment that made me sit here nine years later.Is there one achievement from the past nine years that you’ll especially cherish?Robertson: I’ve had so many which I’m very grateful and lucky to have had. The Champions League final (in 2019) sticks out in terms of the whole day, that night and then the parade, getting to experience that for the first time, and doing it with your best mates. When I look back, that was the best 24 to 48 hours of my life — apart from my kids and my marriage, I need to put that on record!Last season, the Tottenham game was unbelievable in terms of having that moment in front of your own fans, getting to clinch the league title. We didn’t get that in 2019-20 (due to the pandemic) so to have that last season meant a lot to me.I was a little bit gutted that the 2019-20 lads didn’t get to experience that. I wasn’t sat next to Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Adam Lallana, Ox (Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain). For me, they’re my closest mates so I wish we’d got to experience that in 2020, but I also knew how lucky me and Trent (Alexander-Arnold) were that we got to experience it last year.Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold hold the Premier League trophy (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)There were so many big characters in that team Jurgen Klopp built….Robertson: We went on this most amazing journey together. When we started out, Mo Salah didn’t sign as the best player or best winger in the world. Virgil van Dijk had the potential to be, but he wasn’t the best centre-back in the world. Alison wasn’t the best goalkeeper in the world. Trent wasn’t the best right-back in the world. Hendo was still trying to find his feet as captain, in terms of really coming into his own.Climbing that mountain was the best feeling ever because every day we were coming in just knowing we were getting better and better.We’d beat teams in the tunnel. Genuinely, we went into games not with an arrogance but a feeling of: ‘There’s no way we can get beat today if we perform the way we know we can perform.’ We had an unbelievable environment to just go and express ourselves, to go and try and play with freedom, try and play with no fear.The standard of training, the amount of tackles — if fans had watched training they would have been shouting: ‘Stop!’ We went 100 per cent at all times. It came from the manager and everyone bought into it. Everyone was on the same page and we just made magical things happen.A mural of Jurgen Klopp outside Anfield (Kate McShane/Getty Images)Does it feel different now?Robertson: In terms of the club that I am leaving behind, we are not at the 2017 stage. We are at the transition stage.We won the league last year and the environment was very similar. Now this year hasn’t worked out for a variety of reasons. We can’t hide away from it, and it is not an excuse, but what we went through last summer (with the death of Diogo Jota)… I hope no team will ever go through that devastation again. Football didn’t matter. We didn’t care about football for weeks. None of us wanted to train. That was the reality.You were getting treatment off physios and physios didn’t want to treat you. Do you know what I mean? That is the reality of it. As footballers we have a duty, we have to move on. We have to keep going and we managed that. We started the season fairly well, although it was still an emotional time for us. The Bournemouth game was ridiculously emotional with all of Jots’ family there. After the 20th minute (when Jota’s song was chanted), you saw a real dip in performance because of the emotional impact that it had on all of us.Andy Robertson and Diogo Jota were close (Clive Rose/Getty Images)The season has been up and down, it has been inconsistent. We bought players that we all got excited about, and they will all have unbelievable careers at Liverpool. I have no doubt about that. But they are also young.The one thing I get annoyed about in football is that footballers do not control their price tag. The market controls it. These players will be successful for Liverpool. I have seen more than enough in training and in games and with their attitude. But it has been shown that they probably need a little bit of time.Then some players who have played at a ridiculously high level, haven’t played to that level. If you add all that in then we have had an inconsistent season and that is the huge frustration for us. We have tried to search for answers and we have not managed to find them. We have been too easy to play against. There is no hiding away from that, but for the future of Liverpool I believe there’s more than enough in that changing room to go and achieve more things again.They can be successful again. I wish it was this season and then I would have maybe added a trophy or two into an already pretty impressive cabinet. It wasn’t meant to be, but next season they will be right back at it.