Virgil van Dijk has broken his silence on transfer talks he held with Jurgen Klopp ahead of his move to Liverpool in January 2018.
The Reds originally tried to sign the Dutchman the previous summer but were forced to apologise to Southampton and end their interest in the player after being accused of making an illegal approach for his services. Liverpool decided against moving for an alternative, which was criticised at the time, before belatedly getting their man in a club-record £75m deal.
The likes of Man City and Chelsea were also both interested in signing Van Dijk at the time, only for him to only be interested in a move to Anfield. And speaking with Gary Neville on ‘The Overlap’ , he revealed exactly what Klopp said to him to persuade him to join Liverpool when pushed on what exactly happened in those transfer talks.
