The situation seems to have calmed in the time that has passed with van
Dijk left out of Southampton's pre-season trip to France last week, as he continues to make it clear that he wants to join Liverpool.
Watch Celtic centre - back Virgil van
Dijk leave the field after seeing red in this Europa League San Siro clash...
As a Celtic fan, I will be sad to see Van
Dijk leave.
The drama of Virgil van
Dijk leaving Southampton and making his preferred move to Liverpool was the story of the summer.
Should, Van
Dijk leave and despite Southampton insistence they will not deal with the Merseyside giants — Bookmakers still believe that Anfield is still the player's most likely destination.
Not exact matches
The Red's failed to bring in a centre - back as Mamadou Sakho
left the club for Crystal Palace and the pursuit of Virgil Van
Dijk tailed off into nothing more than an embarrassment for all parties.
However, another player Wright mentioned in the interview was the Southampton and Netherlands centre back Virgil Van
Dijk and he is still available, especially after the news reported by The Mirror and others today that the Dutchman has handed in a transfer request and released a statement making his desire to
leave the Saints crystal clear.
Despite this, after selling Vermaelen for around # 15 million, he
left it too late, with apparent last minute enquiry for centre backs such as Matija Nastasic and Virgil van
Dijk not materialising into bids.
Mustafi update: As I said no deal has ben agreed between Inter and Arsenal yet and Wenger has said he's not for sale but the truth of the matter is Mustafi wants the Inter move.Arsenal will only sell him if they can replace him with likely Virgil Van
Dijk or Johnny Evans but for now he's not for sale.They'll only sell if they can replace immediately OT: I've had it confirmed Ox will not be the only key player
leaving Arsenal before the window ends.Take note that Arsenal are currently not close to signing anybody.
Expect signings like Smallings instead of Van
Dijk or Koulibaly if mustafi
leaves, expect panic buys at late hours, Remember wenger said expect the last week of the transfer to be busy...... He would add one am sure if even actually sell Mustafi or ox but my issue is who's to replace them
Holding said he wants to
leave last January so wenger played him and now he's re payed us with giving the ball away over and over again for the first goal and we obviously need a proper defense coz our only central CBs are koscielny n mertesacker so van
dijk should of been our first target along side lacazette but wenger thinks monreal n kolansinac are CBs we would of won this game by a lot of goals if we could defend but being cheap won't allow that
Van
Dijk has been getting some rave reviews and could now cost a fortune but I seem to remember Wenger being interested in him when he
left Celtic a couple of years ago, when Wenger thought that # 10 million was overpriced for the Dutchman.
In terms of signings: GK - in: either Pickford / Lafont out: Ospina (don't want him to
leave but it seems inevitable) RB: in: Mario Gaspar / Hugo Mallo / Karsdorp / Pereira / Cancelo, out: Debuchy and Jenkinson CB: in: Van
Dijk / Manolas / Tah / Keane, out: Mertesacker, Gabriel (keep if we play a back 3), bring back Chambers LB: in: Mendy / Kolasinac / Bertrand, out: Gibbs CDM: in: Nzonzi / Bakayoko / Danilo Pereira / Carvalho / Tousart / Diawara, out: Coquelin CM: in: Isco / Jorginho / Keita / Weigl / Kovacic to play the santi role, out: Ramsey, Wilshere Winger: in: Lemar / Douglas Costa / Lucas / Zaha / Balde Keita - someone who can beat a player, out: Walcott (scored quite a few goals this year but does not impact games the way someone at their prime should) Striker: in: Lacazette, out: Giroud (only for a good offer though, he's a decent super sub, however if Sanchez stays we may not need a first choice ST)
If he
leaves, there should be someone like Van
Dijk to replace him.
I can't understand why we would consider letting our 2nd best central defender Mustafi
leave, unless we are getting a better one ie Van
Dijk (highly unlikely BTW).
No, he needs to get shipped out 35mln pounds is too good to turn down and i hope Wenger has some replacement lined up already — for Chambers, Ozil and Sanchez will be very stupid to let 3 of them
leave for free — get Mahrez and Lemar and CB van
Dijk we will be awesome — and Arsenal as a whole need to change i would prefer how Bercel; ona and Madrid setup work too much power at Arsenal for one person to decide everything — that why Spanish teams have been exchange trophies European Cup because of good quality recruitment whether the coach like or not you do nt need a Masters in Economics to be good manager — Zidane has shown that!!
Secondly, offer Chambers plus whatever cash it takes to Southampton to get van
Dijk and at the same time refuse to allow Mustafi to
leave.
Celtic boss Ronny Deila has no plans to allow Arsenal defensive target Virgil van
Dijk to
leave the Scottish champions this January.
Liverpool seem like the most realistic destination though, and speculation has been rife all day on Thursday with regards to Van
Dijk being spotted
leaving training and heading for a new club, as noted in the report.
We need another top quality centre back like Van
Dijk / Manolas / Tah / De Vrij because Mertesacker won't be a regular and is retiring at the end of the season, Koscielny is ageing and has injury problems, Chambers seems like he may
leave, Gabriel is injured rn and is inconsistent, Holding is class but still quite inexperienced and Mustafi picks up loads of yellow cards.
Barkley, for central defense van
dijk or smalling if Manu sells or if we sell paulista, but if no sell C. Defense then no buys, then maybe we can get Maghrez in a swap with theo Walcott, then Henry and mahrez in the bench waiting, we have already bought a
left fullback
Swap Sanchez for Aguero, Swap Giroud +25 million for Lacazette, drop the ridiculous interest in Mbappe and offer 80 million for Verratti instead, if Bellerin wants to
leave, use the funds to get Van
Dijk, if he stays, we go for Jonathan Tah or just go for him anyways... we need a physically imposing and commanding center back to phase out Mertesacker.
Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri is considering tabling a bid for Liverpool target Virgil Van
Dijk in the quest to fill the void
left by centre - back Leonardo Bonucci after he
left for AC Milan earlier this summer.
Though Van
Dijk has been
left behind while his teammates travel to France to continue their pre-season preparations, in public at least the club continue to insist that he has a future there and that the hope and goal is to win him back around and convince him to remain at St. Mary's for at least another season.
Van
Dijk was
left out of the Southampton squad for the entire month of August due to transfer speculation.
It's not likely that Van
Dijk will change his mind about
leaving the club, but with Conte having an underwhelming transfer situation at Chelsea, he would be willing to spend big on the Soton star.
They write: «It is possible City could attempt a double swoop on Southampton at the end of the season, with centre - half Virgil van
Dijk already on their radar and
left - back Bertrand highly rated by the club.
At first it fell to Juan Mata but Virgil Van
Dijk got a block to the ball that broke
left for Rashford to finish again.
Southampton are keen to keep Van
Dijk as he is a colossal figure for them and would
leave them without a leader at the back.
Half chance for Saints to get back in the game as van
Dijk heads Redmond's
left - wing corner over the bar.
If Liverpool do sign Van
Dijk, that's over # 100 million spent already this summer on two players and
leaves James Milner as Liverpool's first choice
left back.
: «It is possible City could attempt a double swoop on Southampton at the end of the season, with centre - half Virgil van
Dijk already on their radar and
left - back Bertrand highly rated by the club.
LONDON: Southampton defender Virgil van
Dijk won't be allowed to
leave St Mary's in the current transfer window, the Premier League club's chairman Ralph Krueger said on Wednesday.
Now Chelsea are in pole position to land Oxlade - Chamberlain this month, whilst they also look at moves for Virgil van
Dijk, Fernando Llorente and a
left - back.
Southampton defender Virgil van
Dijk feels his former Celtic teammate Kieran Tierney should be in no rush to
leave Glasgow following impressive progress in recent seasons.
Theo Walcott was similarly wide awake on six minutes to catch Ragnar Klavan — operating in an unfamiliar
left - back berth - dawdling on the ball, Virgil Van
Dijk needing to step across and bail his teammate out of a bind of his own making.
Van
Dijk would be a fine addition, however am afraid we (Liverpool) have
left a bit too late.
Meanwhile, Virgil van
Dijk, Naby Keita, Philippe Coutinho, and Ousmane Dembélé are all under contract until at least 2020, and they all want to
leave their current teams.
Van
Dijk is still on Southampton, and one question has been
left unanswered: Who was in the van?
Southampton have told Virgil Van
Dijk that their stance on him remains unchanged and they have no plans to let him
leave in January.
The Van
Dijk deal was dead from the point Liverpool publically apologised and Southampton reiterated their stance that, like Coutinho, under no circumstances would he be
leaving the club.
As a result of their apparent concern, the Reds will not submit an offer for Van
Dijk, who has five years
left on his current deal in Hampshire, unless Southampton make it clear they are willing to sell.
Liverpool should sign Chelsea outcast Diego Costa and Southampton defender Virgil van
Dijk if Philippe Coutinho
leaves for Barcelona, according to former England international Stuart Pearce.
Manchester City are being linked, but sources have told me that Chelsea remain favourites to land van
Dijk — should Southampton let him
leave.
That they started together at all would have been a surprise for many in the summer, with Liverpool transfer target van
Dijk expected to
leave and Hoedt tipped as his replacement.
«Virgil Van
Dijk was fully expected to
leave Southampton for Liverpool in the Summer transfer window and the player was
left disappointed and frustrated when the deal failed to materialise,» he told TheGamblingTimes.com.
Van
Dijk would become the sixth player to
leave the south coast for Liverpool since 2014 if he completes the deal.