Virgil van Dijk said he is in “conversations with the right human beings” over his Liverpool future as the nightclub captain openings into the final months of his dedication.
Van Dijk is one of several high-account Reds players whose bargains run out next off summer season, with crunch also bordering the futures of Mohamed Salah and also Trent Alexander-Arnold.
As it stands, the trio will be able to negotiate pre-dedication terms with overseas clubs from January, yet Van Dijk said he is in talks over elongating his stay at Anfield.
“I can claim boldy conversations are recurring, yet I wear’t realise, we will appointment what takes place in the future,” Van Dijk said. “My full emphasis is on Liverpool, yearning to win arcades that are in drifter of me and also totally nothing else.
“What the future will lug I have zero notion at the moment. I can lone inform you that conversations have been started up and also we will appointment.”
Van Dijk, who authorized up with Liverpool in 2018, turned 33 in July yet sticks approximately an integral portion of a back that owns conserved 5 unspoiled bed linens across eight Premier League arcades so much this period.
“I really feel sincerely wondrous, physically, emotionally and also I am having enjoyable,” Van Dijk incorporated.
“What the future lugs I have zero notion at the moment, yet favor I said in my previous rebuttal, conversations are recurring with the right human beings and also once it’s time to gain a judgment or whatever, I reckon you males (the media) will realise it as diligently.
“Yet now full dedication and also emphasis is on Liverpool and also to flourish this period. So we will appointment.”
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Inquired around Liverpool’s escalated defensive record this period, Van Dijk said it was down to a recovery of ideology under brand-newfangled supervisor Arne Slot.
“I reckon at the start of the period, we saw numbers around what takes place if your assaulter is in the final 3rd, how numerous figures lug out we have behind the ball and also I would claim that owns understandably adjusted,” he said.
“I wouldn’t claim it’s (simply) the last queue and also the goalkeepers grossing a distinction, specifically it’s the males in front of us again, so it’s a staff project.
“I realise how it works, me and also Ibou (Konate) as the centre-endorses or the goalkeepers will receive the credit for the unspoiled bed linens yet it’s with one voice around everybody in the staff and also credit to everybody who is doing that.”
Sunday’s 2-1 win over Chelsea saw Liverpool awakening to the peak of the Premier League table after Manchester Urban room’s come-from-behind 2-1 win at Wolves earlier in the day.
Via seven victories from eight in the league, Slot owns shuttled an stellar start to spiritedness at Anfield. During the summer season the talk possessed been over a battle in between Urban room and also Medley for the Premier League title, yet the early signs and also indications are that Liverpool cannot be untreated.
“Everyone can have their opinion yet I realise, favor I reckon the majority of human beings realise opinions can recovery every 3 days now in terms of (human beings expression) somebody can win the league and also somebody can’t,” Van Dijk said. “I reckon there is zero juncture listening to any of that. I wear’t lug out that.
“I emphasis on one arcade at a time, I pine to flourish, I pine to win prizes in every competition we’re in, I pine to try and also win it. We realise how confusing it is yet I am taking part in present it a sincerely wondrous go I reckon.”
