Liverpool love the Scottish Premiership, and their recent dealings with clubs in the top flight have proven their admiration for our league.

Aberdeen are among those to benefit from the Premier League giants in recent seasons, from loan signings and healthy cash boosts to landing a star midfielder.

Danny Ward impressed the Red Army during his brief stint in goal under Derek McInnes, while Calvin Ramsay pocketed the Reds a then-record fee of around £6.5million in 2022.

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The Dons even turned Leighton Clarkson's stay into a permanent move after the Lancashire-born midfielder's impressive loan spell from Anfield, which became a four-year deal after wowing fans in the Granite City.

He quickly won over supporters by scoring a screamer on his debut against St Mirren, and is still bagging goals for the Dons - the most recent being his strike against St Johnstone last time out.

While there has been a flop in the loan signing of Rhys Williams, who left without kicking a ball under then manager Barry Robson, the relationship with Arne Slot's side has had plenty of worth.

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And Dundee United's Luca Stephenson reckons Liverpool see the obvious advantage of sending their young talent on-loan to the Scottish Premiership, writes the Daily Record.

The versatile defender is the latest of the young Reds to head north, where he is currently impressing with Jim Goodwin's Terrors.

It is nothing new to the Anfield club who sent Owen Beck on loan to Dundee last season, with fans across Scotland left entertained by the young full-back's goalscoring performances.

Stephenson spent the last campaign at Barrow, who finished eighth in English League Two, but as soon as he returned they immediately started making plans for him to head to Scotland.

He explained: "I went back to Liverpool at the end of last year and I did a bit of a loan review. In the end of May last year, so before the window was even open, probably before many teams had started thinking about which players to sign, it was in the front of Liverpool's mind that my next step was to come up here.

"I think they’d seen how well Leighton had done during his loan, Owen obviously came up on loan. They've done well and got in the spotlight and I think Liverpool have seen first hand how good this league can be for young players.

"If they do well they can either stay up here or go back to Liverpool and go out on another loan like Owen going to the Championship with Blackburn. They're not afraid to kind of chuck players in up here whereas maybe other clubs haven't had the success Liverpool have had and maybe won't do it as much."

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Stephenson is hoping to make a similar impact to Beck. The defender impressed at Dundee and was then recalled in January and given his Liverpool debut before he returned to Dens Park, although injury blighted his second spell.

Stephenson admitted: "Yeah, look you've seen how well he did last year (in terms of goals and assists). I think it's a massive part of his game.

"It gets you out there with goals and assists. You can have a six, seven out of ten game but you had a couple of assists in there and you had a goal in there and it kind of gets you in the limelight and at the front of people's attention. I think that was massive in terms of what Owen did last year.

"He had steady games but he adds that goal and that assist and it’s what pushes you to the front of people's minds. If you have somebody who can give you a six out of ten every week and add goals and add assists from wing backs, full backs, wherever it's going to be it's going to be massive for the manager going forward.

"When he went back to Liverpool the manager's going to see him and say ‘a left-back scoring goals in the Scottish Premiership, it's massive’. He got recalled for Liverpool in January, played a couple of games for the first team and then came back out. It would have helped him that he was scoring goals and picking up assists that he could go back and play."