Virgil van Dijk made the transfer from Southampton to Liverpool for 84.5 million euros this week. With his transfer, the Dutch national Orange is the most expensive Dutch footballer ever and also the most expensive defender in the world. His old club FC Gronignen also benefits from the million euros. The club where Van Dijk played three seasons is worth over 800,000 euros.
In the summer of 2010 Van Dijk made the transition from Willem II to FC Groningen at a young age. In his last season he played in the spotlight at various clubs and chose Celtic, who paid him three million euros. Two and a half years later he costs Liverpool almost 85 million euros and Groningen also benefits from this deal,”We have of course asked Celtic directly for a quotation. We couldn’t stop there,”says general director Hans Nijland laughing in conversation with Ziggo Sport,” Next week there will be more known.
The money that comes in via Celtic to FC Groningen will not be spent directly by the club from the Eredivisie in the winter transfer period,”We are not going to do anything with it”, says Nijland. This director holds his hand this winter beautifully on the edge. Still, it is going to be quite old and new, I think.
