Virgil van Dijk may simply have supplied the most important trace but concerning his future at Liverpool, and followers may simply be beginning to turn into giddy with anticipation.
Together with Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold, the membership captain has simply six months remaining on his contract at Anfield and, if a brand new deal isn’t confirmed by New 12 months’s Day, he’d be free to talk with abroad suitors a couple of potential transfer for subsequent summer season.
Hypothesis over the trio’s futures has been incessant for the previous a number of months, and with every of their conditions quickly set to come back to a head a method or one other, the Dutch defender has left supporters in little question as to his mindset.
Van Dijk eager to stay at Liverpool
Talking to Prime Video Sport (through The Mirror), Van Dijk recognises his hero-worship standing among the many Liverpool fanbase and firmly believes that, even at 33, he nonetheless has loads of mileage within the tank.
The Reds’ quantity 4 stated: “I like the membership, the membership loves me. I like the followers, the followers love me and it’s a superb basis to achieve success. In my view I can play for an additional three, 4 years not less than on the highest stage.”
The centre-back additionally declared that he’d ‘like to be’ the primary Dutchman to captain a Premier League-winning facet, one thing he’s at present heading in the right direction to do if LFC keep their present place on the summit to the tip of this season.
Van Dijk is nowhere close to completed
There’s no false modesty from Van Dijk in his assertion, and nor ought to there be – virtually seven years to the day that he grew to become a Liverpool participant, he’s earned his approach into discussions concerning the membership’s best centre-backs of all time.
The 33-year-old has backed himself to maintain going for a number of extra seasons, and the shape he’s proven in 2024/25 means that his profession is nowhere close to tapering off to an anticlimax.
With these feedback, he’s given the strongest trace out of him, Salah and Trent about wanting to stay at Anfield past the tip of the present marketing campaign, and up to date projections {that a} new contract is likely to be imminent appear believable.
2024 has largely been a pleasing yr for Liverpool followers, and it might have a wonderful sign-off if a brand new contract for Van Dijk is introduced by the membership earlier than the tip of December…
