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Virgiling on the vandijkulous

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doctor_mac said:
Van Dijk Not Back In Training ! But He Wasnt Expected To Be !
Tuesday, 1st Aug 2017 13:32
Liverpool fan websites are making hay whilst The Lying Rag shines claiming that Virgil Van Dijk not training with the Saints squad yesterday was evidence he would be joining Liverpool.


The good thing about Liverpool fan websites is they are very good at straw clutching, they have an ability to take any aspect of something that concerns their club and turn it into a positive.
I am not saying this is a bad thing, certainly having a fan base that is fanatical beyond positivity is a better option than having one where a fai proportion of it is keen to jump on their club's back at every opportunity.

Virgil Van Dijk's absence from the Saints squad to Liverpool fans is conclusive proof the deal is about to happen, but are they right ?
The stark answer is no, the news from Saints has always said that the plan this week was for Mauricio Pellegrino to meet with Van Dijk and talk to him about reintegrating back into the squad and training.
Given that the Saints squad were in France till Saturday evening, that meeting was highly unlikely to take place until Monday afternoon at the earliest after the first training session of the week had taken place.
Saints had never claimed that Van Dijk would return or indeed on what date, only that they would be speaking to the player, reiterating that their position remained unchanged and hoping that he would now be able to accept this and get his mental attitude focused on the coming season.
This being the case then Van Dijk's transfer to Liverpool is no more or no less likely to happen than it has been at anytime over the past three months.
Whether Van Dijk will return to training or whether he will continue to sit and wait to see if Saints capitulate will be a story that will run to 1st September, at the moment his next move if he doesn't return to training is to put in a transfer request, a move that will cost him personally £7 million.
anfieldhq.com who have carried the story that Van Dijk did not return to training yesterday quote their source as a user on SaintsWeb called Tom28 and back up his ITK status by claiming he is the man that first broke the story that Van Dijk had been removed from the squad 2 weeks ago.
anfieldhq and indeed all Liverpool fans would do well to ask themselves why their club has not actually bid for Van Dijk, why they have not put the £60 million the Liverpool Echo is quoting that they are willing to pay on the table and open negotiations with Saints ? rather than the line they have followed in using the media to try and force the player himself to demand the move.
The answer is appallingly that Liverpool know that any direct approach from them now would almost certainly trigger an investigation from the Premier League even if Saints did not make a further complaint.
Liverpool who have already been sanctioned for enticing academy players from other clubs in the Premier League, know that a transfer ban is likely if they make a direct approach to Southampton .
Their only hope is that Van Dijk can pressurise Saints into giving in and putting him up for sale thus Liverpool can then legitimately make an offer unsolicited.
This is quite frankly as I said earlier appalling and whilst I am sure that there are those Liverpool fans who themselves are not happy with the way their club has behaved, the majority on social media, many of whom have been no nearer to Liverpool than a Beatles album, revel in stirring up the situation.
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Christ, Southampton are giving Everton a run for their money in the small time bitter fanbase stakes.
 
Windom Earle said:
Wasn't it reported that City had dropped out of the race once the price had risen above £50m? And all the stories previous to their reporting us were about how he would turn every other club down anyway. Speculation is that that is what they were cheesed off about.

I don't think they were in a position to force a bidding war, and they were wound up enough about the press leaks to report the only buying club left. Perhaps he wasn't for sale after all, because it doesn't look to me like there was any plan behind reporting us other than telling us to back off.
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Wouldn't altogether disagree with your first para, but I also remember reports to the effect that they weren't willing to let things go at that and were intent on igniting a bidding war anyway, knowing that his time and value as a Southampton player was.over but not being willing to let his insistence on a move here set a limit on what they might get for him.
 
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Doubtful. We really need this van Dijk signing to happen.

And then probably move on from Keita to Goretzka or Seri.
 
I think Southampton are waiting to secure a replacement first. This will probably happen in the last week.

With his lack of pre-season, he probably won't play first team football till mid-September anyway.
 
dmishra said:
I think Southampton are waiting to secure a replacement first. This will probably happen in the last week.

With his lack of pre-season, he probably won't play first team football till mid-September anyway.
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We have an interesting history with players missing preseason
 
Fuck.. I'm not looking forward to some of the bullshit commentary that's going to be repeated during every game he plays next season (with us or Southampton). It's nauseating how little the commentary focuses on the actual match itself these days.. drama drama drama with football coming as an afterthought.
 
gareth_thomas said:
Fuck.. I'm not looking forward to some of the bullshit commentary that's going to be repeated during every game he plays next season (with us or Southampton). It's nauseating how little the commentary focuses on the actual match itself these days.. drama drama drama with football coming as an afterthought.
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. . . . . . and the endless statistics, most of which have no relevance to anything.
 
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