Virgil van Dijk

Heres. Hoping those figures are true. As said guys a fkn Merc, scandalous from him, although not at our club.

As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike at the moment.

Thank * those mad English will pay anything.

 

Liverpool have £75 million bid accepted for him

Jeremy Wilson‏Verified account @JWTelegraph 13m13 minutes ago
Exclusive. Liverpool have had a world record £75m bid accepted by Southampton for Virgil van Dijk.

 

If true, that's absolutely mental money.

 

YAAASSSSS

 

Unreal signing for Liverpool though, you add in Keita next season and Liverpool are a goalkeeper away from challenging for the league

 

Liverpool have finally won the race to sign Southampton centre-back Virgil van Dijk after agreeing a world record £75 million fee for a defender.

The two clubs have again been in discreet negotiations in recent days following the acrimonious breakdown of a potential deal last summer and have today reached agreement on the transfer.

Manchester City and Chelsea are both also interested and have made inquiries at different stages of the past six months but, barring any late super-bid from another club, Van Dijk will get his move to Liverpool.

Liverpool did not ultimately make a formal offer to Southampton last summer but were ready to pay around £60 million after it became clear that Van Dijk wanted to join them. Southampton were furious at the leak of information before a fee had been agreed and their complaint to the Premier League prompted an apology from Liverpool and an agreement not to pursue the deal.

That position held throughout the summer transfer window, with Southampton also turning down a large offer from Chelsea. Van Dijk then missed the start of the season amid concern at his focus before being reintegrated back into the team under new manager Mauricio Pellegrino. He has since been left out of the recent games against Chelsea, Huddersfield Town and Tottenham Hotspur.

Premier League leaders Manchester City are also keen and were preparing a £60 million opening bid but the situation has moved on quickly in recent days and Southampton are now extremely close to an agreement with Liverpool.

Personal terms on around £180,000-a-week are likely to be a formality and there is a growing feeling that a deal may even be completed ahead of the transfer window formally opening next Monday. Van Dijk's preference has been Liverpool and the chance to work with their manager, Jurgen Klopp.


The world record transfer for a defender is the £54 million that Manchester City spent on Kyle Walker last summer.

A fee of £75 million would also be level with Romelu Lukaku as the second most expensive transfer in Premier League history, behind only Manchester United’s £90 million purchase of Paul Pogba.

Southampton have won one of their last 11 games and have now decided that it would be better to sell Van Dijk and reinvest the fee this January. Pellegrino is under growing pressure but has had the Van Dijk situation hanging over him since replacing Claude Puel as manager last summer.

 

Yay.

 

Boom!.

Swimming in pinkys..

 

£180k a week, probably over 20 times what he was on here

 

Lawwell right now

 

Lawwell has a hardon £7.5m on its way!

 

Love it.

 

We got him for 2.5mil hahaha.

 

75 million smackers.

 

Been conflicting report about what the sell-on percentage actually is...?

Some saying 10% of the full fee = 7.5 million.

Some say 10% on the profit - so 10% of 62 mill = 6.2million. But others say it's 15% on the profit which would be nearly 10m.

 

Wasn't his first contract at us for £4k a week?

 

Aren't Man City after him? Rather go there than Liverpool if I was him.

 

2nd most clean sheets in the League so the song makes no sense