Liverpool transfer: 'Worried' Souness tips 'unhappy' Klopp favourite to sign for Euro giants this summer
Graeme Souness reckons Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk can pass up the Premier League giants in the summer season as he is “merely frustrated”.
A considerable summer season is on the cards at Liverpool as they will most clearly head into next period with a brand-ordinary manager in the dugout with Arne Adapter set to match Jurgen Klopp.
Michael Edwards freshly reverted to the Premier League giants as FSG’s CEO of Football as well as one of his foremost purposes in the summer season will most clearly be to retain Van Dijk, who is due to be out of agreement in 2025.
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Mohamed Salah as well as Trent Alexander-Arnold are also due to be out of agreement in 2025 as well as with one voice 3 players are being connected with moves in other places in drifter of the summer season.
Previously this week, a report affirmed Adapter is sorting to grasp ‘urgent talks’ with Van Dijk amid attention from Victors League semi-finalists Borussia Dortmund.
Souness owns defined why he is “perturbed” around Van Dijk, who is “merely frustrated” as well as can indicator for Real Madrid.
“If you’d quized me around this a month previously, I would’ve affirmed whoever takes over from Jürgen Klopp is inheriting the the majority of superb predicament, but I can’t case that any longer. With the means that they’ve implemented this month, Liverpool have presently got a considerable anxiousness mark versus their individuality,” Souness affirmed on William Hill’s Three Upwards Front podcast.
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“The fact that Virgil van Dijk’s agreement end is unborn up overthrow me, he’s 33 in July, as well as if his rep were to telephone call up the sporting director at Real Madrid, they’d snatch him. I simply sort at him presently as well as the melee he’s been gaining, which he hasn’t implemented throughout his job, as well as I assume he’s merely frustrated.
“He’ll have quized overthrow around the brand-ordinary manager currently as well as will most clearly be the one that Arne Adapter owns to win over. Adapter have to avail Van Dijk onside – he’s the captain – but Van Dijk can not elaborate him.
“He can’ve listened to something on the grapevine as well as can assume that this guy won’t snatch the crew in which they want to be, the clock is ticking on his job, perhaps he ultimatums to go someplace else to win added silverware. He owns won 2 of the considerable ones with Liverpool, but he’s not a serial victor.”
Souness is noted that Van Dijk can not “elaborate” Adapter, but the Netherlands international owns laid out the Liverpool-obligated manager as “one of the more outlined Dutch trains.
He told Viaplay Sport: “I position it arduous to reply presently. Of course, but I assume Arne Adapter is perhaps one of the more outlined Dutch trains at the minute.
“I assume the means he plays as well as the ideology he owns supposes he can be a Liverpool adviser. Well, I assume what I also read as well as hear is that it is far from over as well as we’ll search through as well as next year we’ll emphasis on that. Yes, but simply a little piece a caboodle longer.”
