This week Liverpool made Virgil of Dijk’s world’s most expensive defender of all time. The Dutch international Orange was allegedly acquired from Southampton for 84.5 million euros and will join the selection of the Reds on 1 January. In England, there has since been an alternating response to the transfer, but Josep Guardiola is convinced that Liverpool has taken a big hit with the arrival of Van Dijk.
The qualities of the 26-year-old stopper are beyond dispute to the manager of Manchester City:”It’s about the player, not the transfer price”, he is quoted by various English media on Friday,”I know that Liverpool has strengthened with a fantastic player; Van Dijk is an exceptional centre defender. We will see in the future if he is worth the transfer price, but sometimes the cheap players are worth more than the expensive ones.
“If he plays six, seven or eight seasons at a very high level, the transfer price will turn out to be low afterwards,”continues Guardiola. The Spanish rehearser points to John Stones, who was picked up by Manchester City at Everton a year and a half ago for about 55 million euros,”he was also considered too expensive when he came. Now the transfer price is too low. In the end, it all depends on the performance in the field.
At the beginning of this week, almost all the English media reported that Manchester City would also have provided for Van Dijk, but Guardiola invalidated this rumour on Wednesday evening after the competition duel of the frontrunner visiting Newcastle United. The lecturer is content about his defense and is especially complimentary about Nicolás Otamendi,”We have a super-man in the team, without him we wouldn’t have been able to achieve what we have achieved now. We talk about a lot of players, but if I can point out one player who deserves a lot of respect, it’s Nico. He is incredible, even with pain he fights for the team.
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