The Alexis Mac Allister Scottish ancestry laid bare as Liverpool star’s Celtic connection comes from Glencoe

Alexis Mac Allister has the most Scottish-sounding name of any Argentinian football player you could imagine.

And it's led fans to believe that the newest Liverpool signing, born in Santa Rosa, Argentina, has roots dating back generations to Bonnie Scotland. The 23-year-old midfielder made the summer transfer from Brighton to Anfield for a fee believed to be worth around £35million after Mac Allister won the World Cup with his country in Qatar, playing in that classic final against France that saw Lionel Messi lift the famous trophy.

But the player's name isn't the only thing making him Scottish at heart, as the The Athletic report the star's family tree can be dated back centuries to Tarbert, with the MacAllister family name appearing etched in castles and on gravestones in the village of Skipness. Meanwhile Alexis' father, Carlos Mac Allister an Argentine politician and former footballer, who turned out for the likes of Boca Juniors, and Racing Club during his time, is believed to have more of an affinity with Ireland than Scotland when it comes to family roots.

Irrespective of this, the playmaker's family tree can stretch back to the 1700s in Scotland, according to the report, and that a website in North America run by the family tells the tale about Charles McAllister, generations removed from Alexis, who was supposedly driven out of Scotland to go to Donabate in Ireland due to being a 'mercenary'.

Official records of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland did not even begin until Alexis' ancestor had left for Ireland, making the proving of such a Scottish heritage difficult. Yet following the massacre of Glencoe, Mac Allister's can be traced back to Kintyre, generations after a Charles MacAllister was a constable