Virgil van Dijk has been linked all year round to a transfer to the top of the Premier League, but is still a player of Southampton. With the winter transfer period approaching, rumours about a transfer of the Orange-international are resumed. Van Dijk was linked to Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool. John Terry believes that the defender would play easily in the base of all these clubs, except for the Blues.
Van Dijk was not given a base place against Chelsea last weekend by manager Mauricio Pellegrino, and that was oil on the fire for the British tabloids. The rumours about a departure were flapping up and a transfer is almost inevitable. Terry sees Van Dijk taking the step to the top of the Premier League:”At Liverpool he would definitely be in the base”, according to the 37-year-old defender of Aston Villa talking to Sky Sports,”At Arsenal as well. Chelsea? There he would make the selection better. At Manchester City he is in the base, just like Manchester United. I think he would appear everywhere in the base and make the team better.
Liverpool wanted to go far for Van Dijk last summer, but at that time Southampton didn’t let him go. Also in January, the Saints seems to want to hold on to an asking price of at least seventy million euros. The defender can suddenly become the most expensive Dutch football player of all time, and Terry thinks it’s worth spending that money on Van Dijk,”he is the victim of Southampton’s problems. It was a big statement to keep him on the couch in a match against Chelsea. If they were to ask EUR 70 million, if I were Chelsea, I would be sitting under it, because he does not even stand in their base “.
Virgil van Dijk leaves for an English top club in January.
