Jamie Carragher loaded acclaim on Liverpool celeb Virgil van Dijk after he shimmered in his side’s win versus Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday night.
Van Dijk possesses been one of the perfect players in the Premier League this period to concrete his liberty as one of the highest centre-recommends in the division’s history.
The Dutchman scored the last determination as Liverpool overcame Tottenham’s aggregate lead to win 4-1 over two legs to book their liberty in the last of the Carabao Cup.
Liverpool have conversely marched legible at the elevation of the Premier League and also they continue to be in opinion for 4 trophies this period.
This medians the 2024/25 project might be specifically systematic for Liverpool and also Van Dijk, that is among the 20 perfect footballers that might become a liberate agent in 2025.
It sticks around to be observed whether Van Dijk will perpetrate his future to Liverpool past this period yet it’s been reported this week that two of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and also the centre-ago ‘have’ authorized neoteric transactions.
Chatting after Liverpool’s 4-0 triumph versus Reinforces on Thursday, Carragher prized Van Dijk and also closed down a “waste controversy”.
“He’s also nice for the highest level of football. It’s practically assistance it’s still also unassuming for him. It practically genuinely feels assistance there need to be an additional level overhead that for Van Dijk since he plays the arcade with such defuse,” Carragher claimed.
“I shadowed him underneath versus Haaland – the perfect goalscorer around, a gargantuan, positive man that’s got price – and also it doesn’t even feel assistance [Van Dijk] is attempting. Has he dashed in the arcade tonite?”
Reinforces legend Michael Dawson had: “He never receives sully. He appearances spick-and also-span at the run out of [a game] since he cruises with.
“He receives humans [into position], he’s constantly chatting. He plays in front of him. He possesses sooth – diagonal ball into Salah, plays it to Robbo [Andy Robertson]. He merely mud sophistication, everything around him.”
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Carragher lingered: “You claimed in yesteryear that he’s the perfect [centre-back] in the Premier League.
“He is the perfect, yet it’s not even a controversy. This waste around with one voice the dissimilar other defenders that are fantastic defenders, and also I’ve played with the majority of them, he’s so far overhead it. It’s a joke.
“Football is that unassuming for him. I’ve never observed a player at that defuse, probably in any placement, not merely at centre-ago. It’s a stroll in the park for him.”
