Virgil van Dijk guarantees blockbuster summer season switch window for Liverpool: ‘Shouldn’t neglect the standard…’
Virgil van Dijk says he expects a “huge summer season” for Liverpool within the switch market as he reportedly closes in on a deal that can safe his future at Anfield.
Arne Slot’s males are on the point of a record-equalling twentieth English league title after Sunday’s 2-1 victory at dwelling to West Ham, by which Van Dijk scored the winner.
They’re 13 factors forward of second-placed Arsenal with simply six video games to go and will wrap up the title subsequent weekend if outcomes go their means.
Van Dijk’s personal future is prone to be secured later this week, with the announcement of a two-year contract to match Mohamed Salah’s new deal.
Ahead Federico Chiesa was the one outfield signing in final 12 months’s post-season switch window however he has not often featured and Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot will probably be desperate to strengthen.
“I feel Liverpool ought to be capable to problem for titles within the upcoming years,” stated Van Dijk, who captained the staff for the a hundredth time within the league in opposition to West Ham.
“No matter occurs by way of gamers going out, gamers coming in, I feel it must be a giant summer season. I feel they’re planning to make it a giant summer season, so all of us should belief the board to do the suitable job.
“I feel we 100% can enhance. I feel we should not neglect the standard that the Premier League possesses, particularly this season. It is unbelievable how everybody can beat everybody.”
The Dutch worldwide, 33, stated Liverpool would additionally profit from a pre-season, with no main worldwide competitors going down this 12 months.
“This 12 months, there’s a coaching camp and there may be time for the staff to work on what the supervisor desires and I feel that can then enhance the staff,” he stated.
“I feel a correct pre-season would undoubtedly assist the membership with a view to be much more constant than we have already got been.”
Van Dijk is ready to turn into solely the second Liverpool captain to carry the Premier League trophy and he’s trying so as to add to that.
“Being profitable with Liverpool, the tradition of the membership, every part that embodies Liverpool — that’s simply a part of me,” he stated.
“I really like the membership, that is fairly apparent. I feel you possibly can see that in the way in which I converse concerning the membership, the way in which I work for the membership by way of what I do on the pitch on and off the pitch, and that can all the time be the identical.”
