On New Year’s Day, Burnley picks it up against Liverpool, the owner of the most expensive defender in the world. The Reds accounted for no less than 85.4 million euros for Virgil van Dijk. With his arrival, manager Jürgen Klopp hopes to solve his defensive problems. Burnley’s manager Sean Dyche is doing it with a rearguard that cost no more than seventeen million euros.
Burnley’s rearguard had already kept the Premier League’ zero’ ten times this season. One of the people responsible for this is James Tarkowski, the defender who has been taken away from Brentford for less than four million euros and one of the new leaders of the team since Michael Keane left for Everton. He allegedly played in the spotlight at several major English clubs. Dyche knows what his defender must cost, now that Liverpool put an astronomical sum on the table for Van Dijk:”Ninety hundred million pounds”, says the manager with a smile.
If someone in your street sells his house for one hundred thousand pounds more than you thought your house was worth, then don’t you sell your house for one hundred thousand pounds less? That’s the business side of football,”Dyche understands why Liverpool has searched so deeply for Van Dijk,” It’s the market. José Mourinho is right, you pay the amount or not.
