74.5
Virgiling on the vandijkulous
- Thread starter Skullflower
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
76
Shit game.
Linky dinky doo dah?
Yes mate;
https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?57504-Virgil-Transfer-Rumours-Summer-17/page101
Post 5035 I think it was.
168
I predict that we won't sign him.
Controversial.
'Badly advised' Virgil van Dijk may have ruined his chances of a dream move to Liverpool
[article]Southampton are ‘more determined than ever’ to hang on to defender Virgil van Dijk despite his insistence that he wants to leave the club to join Liverpool this summer, Independent.ie understands.
With Van Dijk training alone and not taking part in Southampton’s pre-season matches, club insiders have hinted that the 26-year-old has been ‘badly advised’ by his agent in recent months and suggested that a move to Liverpool could have been finalised if the player had handled his desire to leave in a different manner.
Van Dijk re-affirmed his stance that he has set his heart on a move to Liverpool in meetings with club officials in the last 24 hours, even though Southampton have yet to receive a firm cash offer for the Dutch defender from the Anfield club.
This has been Van Dijk's stance since the middle of May, when he told senior Southampton staff that he wanted to leave.
That was before the club were made aware that he had already held 'extensive' talks with Liverpool over what the player, his agent and Anfield officials hoped would become a £50m summer move.
Yet Southampton have remained firm throughout this summer that they would not sanction a deal for Van Dijk to leave for Liverpool, just a year after he signed a new six-year contract with the club that gave him a chance to make his name in the Premier League.
Liverpool were forced to issue an apology to Southampton in June after their unsolicited approaches for Van Dijk became public and stated they would make no further moves for the Dutch defender unless they were given the green light by Saints officials.
However, Southampton officials have reconfirmed to Van Dijk and his agent that they will not sell him in this transfer window and seem to be determined to make a stand over what they now see as a ‘crucial moment’ in their club’s short term future.
Saints officials are concerned that if Van Dijk succeeds in forcing through a move to Liverpool by using the bullish tactics he has deployed in recent days, players wishing to leave the club in the future could make similar moves to force through a transfer.
Van Dijk’s value has soared in a summer that has seen defenders transferred for huge sums of money across Europe, with the £70m price tag that was placed on the Dutchman in some quarters earlier this summer now needing to be revised.
For now, it appears Southampton and Van Dijk are involved in a stand-off that shows no sign of ending, with new Saints manager Mauricio Pellegrino eager to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.[/article]
who the fuck wrote that string of shite?
Ha, a club thinking they have any power over a player and his agent.
They have the final say. On everything.
It was written by some guy called Harry Clarke.
Palmer ( reputedly a manc, and regular criticiser of Liverpool), writes for The Sunday World, an Irish rag.
Palmer ( reputedly a manc, and regular criticiser of Liverpool), writes for The Sunday World, an Irish rag.
It's funny that they didn't have the same stance when Lovren and Lallana did something similar is it.
Complete nonsense that it could have been sorted if he had handled it differently. He told them he wanted to leave and then they said he couldn't whilst trying to start a bidding war with us Chelsea and Man City , then were pissed off because VVD said he only wanted to come to us.
We behaved like fucking amateurs but Southampton have been like prima donnas throughout. It's not like were getting him on the fucking cheap is it.
Complete nonsense that it could have been sorted if he had handled it differently. He told them he wanted to leave and then they said he couldn't whilst trying to start a bidding war with us Chelsea and Man City , then were pissed off because VVD said he only wanted to come to us.
We behaved like fucking amateurs but Southampton have been like prima donnas throughout. It's not like were getting him on the fucking cheap is it.
Yea but do we still get in the champions league if united win the Europa?
no but we'll win the african cup anyway.
The Man United/Europa league win joke and African Cup of Nations joke is also on the list now.
That's the kind of thing than both Sterling and Raheem would agree with.
That one has a basis in a genuinely funny moment though.
Similar threads
-
- Locked
