Andy Robertson: I want to play for Scotland as long as I can

Andy Robertson said he held positives discussions with Steve Clarke after Scotland’s dreams were dashed in Germany this summer.

The Scots failed again to get out of the group stage at a major tournament after taking only one point from three fixtures at Euro 2024.

And ahead of Thursday’s Nations League opener against Poland at Hampden Park, the Liverpool left-back recalled his debrief with Clarke and reiterated his commitment to international football.

The Scotland skipper said: “The manager is very good at asking the experienced players what we think about certain situations and I spoke to the manager a couple of times in the summer after the Euros had ended and we discussed many things.

“I don’t want to say too much, I think that’s obviously a conversation between me and the manager, but if we both weren’t committed we wouldn’t be here.

“We’re here, we want to be successful again with Scotland and we know that the manager and the captain can help that in a big way.

“The manager wants to get to the World Cup, he’s made that clear. I want to play for Scotland as long as I can, as long as I’m good enough to get picked.

“So I think that shows the commitment that we’re here and the other things that get discussed will stay between me and the manager.

“It wasn’t anything bad, it was just what mistakes did we all make, was there collective mistakes, was there individual mistakes made, was there things that we can improve, was there things that we need to maybe change?

“We have that discussion after every camp, so the Euros was no different. It was just probably the Euros, for the first time in a long time, was maybe one where there was disappointment.

“Everything has been on the way up, the campaign was really good and the excitement for the Euros was all in the back of our mind and then obviously the summer came to an end.

“So I think that was the first time in a long time that there was probably more negatives to speak about than positives and that’s maybe why it was different.

“Obviously we were disappointed, there’s no buttering that up. We went there with hopes, we went there with dreams, we wanted to achieve something that’s never been achieved before by the country, that was what we aimed to do. And we didn’t manage to do that.

“But we just hope that we can now move forward from it and we can have better times in Scotland shirts again instead of what we did have in the summer.”