Will Magee 

Football quiz: players making the move south from Scotland to England

With Aberdeen receiving a club record fee from Liverpool for Calvin Ramsay, here are 10 teasers on signings from north of the border
  
  

Calvin Ramsay poses in his new Liverpool shirt after joining the club from Aberdeen.
Calvin Ramsay poses in his new Liverpool shirt after joining the club from Aberdeen. Photograph: Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC/Getty Images

  1. Liverpool have signed Calvin Ramsay from Aberdeen for £4m plus add-ons, making him the latest in a long line of Scottish players to join the club. Of the team which played Liverpool's first ever match at Anfield, a 7-1 win against Rotherham United on 1 September 1892, how many were Scottish?

    1. Two

    2. Three

    3. Seven

    4. All of them

  2. As a young full-back making the switch from Scotland to England, Ramsay is following in the footsteps of Andy Robertson. Which Scottish club did Robertson support growing up?

    1. Celtic

    2. Rangers

    3. Dundee

    4. Queen's Park

  3. Before making the move from Celtic to Sheffield Wednesday in 1997, Paolo Di Canio failed to join the Hoops on a pre-season tour of which country?

    1. Qatar

    2. France

    3. The Netherlands

    4. Thailand

  4. Which future Netherlands international joined Celtic from Groningen in 2013 and went on to make 115 appearances for the club, scoring 15 goals?

    1. Derk Boerrigter

    2. Virgil van Dijk

    3. Denzel Dumfries

    4. Davy Klaassen

  5. Rangers made a habit of signing players from the Netherlands in the 1990s and early 2000s. Which of their Dutch imports moved on to Arsenal for £8m?

    1. Arthur Numan

    2. Ronald de Boer

    3. Michael Mols

    4. Giovanni van Bronckhorst

  6. Arsenal have made only one senior signing from a Scottish club in the last two decades, namely Kieran Tierney in 2019. Who was the last player to leave a Scottish club for Arsenal before him?

    1. Mikel Arteta

    2. Giovanni van Bronckhorst

    3. John Hartson

    4. Paul Dickov

  7. The £25m fee Celtic received for Tierney remains a Scottish record. Which player attracted the second-highest fee received by a Scottish club from an English counterpart?

    1. Kristoffer Ajer

    2. Odsonne Édouard

    3. Moussa Dembélé

    4. Victor Wanyama

  8. Tierney played alongside Odsonne Édouard during his last season in Scotland. Having left Celtic for Crystal Palace last year, Édouard netted a brace on his Premier League debut. But against whom?

    1. Manchester United

    2. Chelsea

    3. Tottenham

    4. Brighton

  9. Sir Alex Ferguson only signed a handful of Scottish players during his 27 years in charge of Manchester United. But who was the last senior player to be signed directly from a Scottish club?

    1. Jim Leighton

    2. Brian McClair

    3. Liam Miller

    4. Gordon Strachan

  10. Gordon Strachan was one of several high-profile Scottish players to turn out for Manchester United in the 1980s. Where did he end his playing career?

    1. Leeds United

    2. Chelsea

    3. Coventry City

    4. Southampton

Solutions

1:D - Following the FA's decision to allow payments to players in 1885 there was a huge influx of talent from Scotland into England, with the entire Liverpool XI to take the field that day comprised of Scots, 2:A - Robertson has previously said that he would like to play for Celtic one day, though not if he's an 'old fart', 3:C - Di Canio refused to show up for the club's Dutch training camp after a dispute over a pay rise before making a £4.5m switch to the Premier League, 4:B - Van Dijk left Celtic for Southampton in 2015 for a £13m fee, before moving on to Liverpool in 2018 for almost six times that amount, 5:D - Van Bronckhorst had mixed success at Arsenal before switching to Barcelona and coming back to haunt Arsène Wenger in the 2006 Champions League final, 6:B - It's him again! Van Bronckhorst swapped Rangers for Arsenal in 2001, meaning there was an 18-year gap between Arsenal's two most recent senior signings from Scotland, 7:B - Édouard joined Crystal Palace for an initial £14m in 2021, which could rise to £18.5m, 8:C - Édouard scored twice on his bow at Selhurst Park, condemning Spurs to a 3-0 defeat which ended a deceptively bright start under Nuno Espírito Santo, 9:C - Miller signed on a free transfer from Celtic in 2004, going on to make 22 appearances for United in which he scored twice, 10:C - Strachan initially took up a player-coach role at Coventry before hanging up his boots to take on the manager's role full-time, eventually succumbing to relegation in 2001

Scores

  1. 5 and above.

    A decent effort

  2. 8 and above.

    Back of the net!

  3. 0 and above.

    Unlucky ...

 

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