Leeds United’s controversial former owner Massimo Cellino once allegedly turned down the chance to sign Virgil van Dijk.
Graham Bean, who worked as an advisor for the volatile Italian, has revealed that Dave Hockaday once proposed van Dijk as an option, while the Dutchman was at Celtic. Cellino overruled Hockaday, who would last just 70 days in the dugout, and signed an unknown defender from the Italy instead.
“I got on well with Dave and he was a really nice bloke, as was his assistant Junior Lewis,” Bean wrote in the Daily Mail. “But the reality was they were both out of their depth at Leeds.
