Liverpool have broken their transfer record by a huge sum, announcing that Virgil Van Dijk will sign for the club on January 1st.
Neil Atkinson is getting views from Simon Hughes and Paul Senior and looking ahead to what the player can do for The Reds.
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Ha, I got the subscribtion as an xmas present and the first the news I get from the site is we have signed Virgil, brilliant. I also get to follow my excitement up with a chance to listen to this podcast. Great work, one and all.
Has the thunderbirds theme been done for him before?
Great! Keep renewing your subscription through out this transfer window and we might end up with Keita, Ceballos, Pajca and Schemichel as well. :)
What is this? A pre contract agreement?. I know if looks really, really official because its on the official, but the window is not meant to be open yet. The window opens on the 1st of January, so what have we done?. I have to be curious because you have done this show before, and he didn’t come.
I think transfer window is quite misleading. Transfers can be made at anytime, it’s the registration of the player that takes place during the transfer window. Leicester completed the transfer of Adrien Silva but completed the paperwork late (14 seconds!), so he can’t be registered until January.
No they havent. No fee was ever agreed hence the complaint and apology etc. Im a bit hesitant about this as its a lot of money for a cb. However klopp has (eventually) got his 2 main targets from the summer for a total of at least £115m. If we hold on to coutinho at least until the summer (and then Barca hopefully get a transfer ban for tapping up Griezman) we suddenly look like a pretty special side (jan oblak please).
I just hope this isnt a precursor to coutinho leaving.
(Dotingmum on mumsnet)
This is awesome, and all credit in the world to FSG … IF we don’t sell Phil.
All this talk of Liverpool making a huge financial statement means NOTHING if we then sell arguably our best player.
Time will tell … but based on FSG’s history, spending this kind of money without selling big is unlikely.
Win the Cl.Stuff the Chavs and Mancs.Sell Pc for 200 million £.
We need to add Jan Oblak from Athletico Madrid.
Our Keepers are just not cutting it!
4 1/2 years left on his contract, defo in the role of Ferdinand so price wise it isn’t as humongous as fans make out. The rivals fans are trying to cling onto anything they can. They’d all love VVD & Keita. Keeper up next, spine is growing stronger. City running away with the lge but Van Dijk wanted us that’s Damn impressive, start of next season he needs to be captain. Champions League eligible booooosh.
“City running away with the lge but Van Dijk wanted us that’s Damn impressive”
Good observation.
This transfer also sends a message stating that LFC can and are willing to pay for what Klopp wants/needs.
There will be those who will bloat the fees for no reason as a downside but the club shows intent.
S.hughes is a killjoy.