As of late left Aberdeen boss Neil Warnock missed out on marking Liverpool pro Virgil van Dijk from Celtic amid his Gem Royal residence days. The experienced attempted to draw the centre-back to Selhurst Stop some time recently his switch to Southampton but couldn’t get a bargain over the line within the conclusion.
The shield, who has made 66 caps for the Holland national group so distant in his career, was on the books at Celtic Stop from 2013 to 2015. The Loops marked him from FC Groningen and he went on to form 115 appearances in all competitions, chipping in with 15 objectives.
Van Dijk, who is presently 32-years-old, carried on his frame at Southampton but his career way seem have gone in an unexpected way on the off chance that Warnock had got his man. In any case, he afterward finished up at Liverpool and the rest is history.
The ex-Celtic man has played 261 diversions for the Reds to date through and through and has scored 23 objectives from the back. He has won the Chief Association, Champions Association, FA Glass and Association Container since moving to Merseyside
Never intellect Jurgen Klopp, Van Dijk seem have been working beneath Warnock. He said in April final year, with cites through the Day by day Record:
“Completely. Gem Royal residence, right, Steve Ward, the chairman, everything was information based. And we do not sign players unless they are this, that and the other. We had a scout in Scotland tell us almost a player, a great player, I won’t tell you his title however, a great player.
“We were searching for a middle half, I sent Ronnie Jepsen up to observe him, He played all right and Ronnie said ‘he’ll do for us, gaffer’, so I told the chairman he’s reaching to fetched £3million, but he’s a great player, great on the ball. I fair thought it would be a custom. So the chairman said to me ‘we do not think he’s speedy sufficient this player’.
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