Liverpool captain Van Dijk spotted in talks with PSG chiefs as Reds line up Dutchman's 'successor'
Virgil van Dijk was bespeckled conversing to Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and sporting supervisor Luis Campos after Liverpool lost to the French titans on Tuesday night.
The Reds have had an breathtaking season in the Premier League so far with Arne Slot’s side leading the Premier League by 15 junctures to second-placed Medley.
Slot can hardly have wanted a much closer prelude as the newfangled Liverpool manager with the Reds recovering to the League Mug last too, although they were slammed out of the Champions League on Tuesday night by PSG on penalties.
The single annoy on his record this season was their 1-0 loss to Championship strugglers Plymouth Argyle in the FA Mug yet Slot has had a couple of off-arena priorities to bargain with.
Salah, Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are all out of contract in the summer and there is tidbit tidbit symbol that any of them will conceivably be renewing.
Liverpool captain Van Dijk had seemed prefer the presumably of the trio to symbol a newfangled contract with definite journalist James Pearce insisting that he is “aspirant” that the Dutchman will conceivably keep.
The Sports‘s Pearce wrote in GiveMeSport at the end of last month: “I’m still aspirant that Van Dijk will conceivably keep placed. I believe he’s been by far and away the above reproach centre-fifty percent in European football this season.
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“It’s not single what he delivers you on the peddle yet he is that above reproach duty model, leader, amulet in stipulations of the way he conducts himself off the peddle as nicely.
“I believe the fact there has been so tidbit tidbit discuss prospective options in which he can possibly go, I believe that junctures to the most probability of him remaining placed.”
There has already been speculation that PSG can be one of the clubs intrigued in wrapping up Van Dijk and those rumours have ramped upwards a notch after French outlet Foot Mercato filmed the Liverpool defender owning a conversation with the French titans’ president Al-Khelaifi and their transmit chief Campos.
As soon as rendered questions about the contract predicaments of Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold after the PSG loss, Slot asserted: “It is imaginative to come upwards with the contract case. That is the last point I am envisioning. Liverpool showed themselves and with any luck they have added luck next year.”
But it appearances prefer Liverpool can already be handset lining upwards Van Dijk’s ‘beneficiary’ with Borussia Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck ‘on their list’, according to Bild journalist Christian Falk.
Falk wrote on X: ‘Liverpool have Nico Schlotterbeck (25, contract til 2017) of @BVB Dortmund on their list.
‘Schlotterbeck can be the beneficiary of Virgil van Dijk (33) The centre-recommend has a income of €5mio per year Dortmund pine to impart him a newfangled contract.’
