Today, December 27, 2024, marks seven years since the signing that changed the recent history of Liverpool: that of the current captain of the ‘reds’, Virgil van Dijksince his arrival, along with Alisson Becker in the summer of 2018, he gave the team that was led by Jurgen Klopp the defensive security he lacks to return to the top of the football planet.
Since the arrival of Van Dijkhe Liverpool He won a Champions League, a Premier League, a European Super Cup, a Club World Cup, an FA Cup, two Carabao Cups (the English League Cup) and a Community Shield. After the departure of Jordan Henderson In the summer of 2023, the Dutchman is the captain of the ‘red’ team, which is now the leader of the Champions League and Premier League.
Van Dijk (Breda, 7-8-1991) was a member of Southampton (where he arrived in 2015) in the spring of 2017 Jurgen Klopp (which led to Liverpool since 2015) and the ‘red’ club is interested in him. Also City of Manchester and Chelsea They walk in the footsteps of the so-called ‘Breda wall’.
Things got complicated when the Southampton denounced the Liverpool against the Premier League for negotiating behind their backs Van Dijkwho has five years left on his contract with the Saint Mary’s Stadium club.
On 7 June 2017, Liverpool announced that they would give up the signing and apologized to Southampton, the player and their fans. Van Dijk He was dropped from the team and is playing with the U-23s. He returned to the first team.
And finally Van Dijkno doubt it was written in his destiny, he achieved his dream and ended up on the ‘net’. It was on December 27, 2017 when finally the current captain of Netherlands appear on social networks with a T-shirt of Liverpoolwho confirmed the signing.
The Anfield club paid 85 million euros Southamptonthat was done Van Dijk in the most expensive defense in history. It is currently fourth, then Josko Guardiol (90 subscribers for City of Manchester in Leipzig), Harry Maguire (87 paid by Manchester United in Leicester ) and Matthijs de Ligt (85.5 subscribers per Juventus in Ajax).
The rest is history. together, Van Dijk and Liverpool they won everything. Along with Alisson, he contributed defensive solidity to the enormous attacking potential that the ‘reds’ have at the trident. Salah-Firmino-Mané. The one from Breda is second only to Leo Messi in the 2019 Ballon d’Or Now Liverpool hope that Van Dijk, whose contract expires in June, will finally renew until 2027 and their story of -love will continue.
Source: La Verdad
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