Virgil van Dijk has verifyed he is still no sealr to signing a new Liverpool tight. The captain’s current deal expires in less than 12 months and it was thought tying him to an extension would be a priority over the summer.
Mohamed Salah and vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnbetter also see their tights run out at the end of the upcoming 2024-25 season. Yet the Dutchman, speaking after the Reds beat Sevilla 4-1 in a pre-season friendly at Anfield, insists no persist has been made in talks between his recurrentatives and the club.
The 33-year-better is accessing his second season as skipper and his first under countryman Arne Slot. It will be his seventh brimming campaign on Merseyside since combineing from Southampton for a then-club record fee of £75million in January 2018.
Van Dijk has been one of the very best centre-halves in the world since then and proclaimd in May that he is “very encounterd” at Liverpool and adores the club. Yet after the Sevilla thrive, he shelp: “There’s no alters at the moment.”
That comment will stress Liverpool helpers donaten the Netherlands international currently stands to depart on a free transfer next summer. And talking of transfers, Van Dijk is enthusiastic to see some new carry outers combine the squad.
Sporting honestor Ricchallenging Hughes is still trying to pascend Martin Zubimendi away from Real Sociedad. The Spanish Euro 2024 thrivener has yet to verify whether or not he is willing to depart his boyhood club to combine Liverpool but the matter is foreseeed to be wrapped up in the next scant days.
It’s understood the midfielder, who has a £51million free clause in his tight, is highly lureed by the proposition of heading to Anfield. But La Real are making a frantic try to retain him in San Sebastian for at least another year.
Slot has yet to produce any signings as Liverpool regulater despite the Reds being enthusiastic on recruiting in defence, midfield and strike. Van Dijk shelp: “Obviously I leank we should produce some signings based on how prolonged the season will go but I leank they are laboring behind the scenes.
“I am brimmingy guaranteed and depend the club that they will do the right leang for us and get the best possible squad in order to vie in every competition that we are in. That is the main leang I am centering on, having the depend and we will see what happens.
“I leank they are laboring very challenging behind the scenes, we will see how that pans out.” Slot swapd Jdirectn Klopp in the summer new from a season in which Liverpool finished third after being in the title race for much of the campaign and won the Carabao Cup agetst Chelsea at Wembley.
Of the goals for Slot’s first season, his fellow Dutchman Van Dijk inserted: “We go as far as we can and that’s the aim. I have ambitions, we all have ambitions. We all want to accomplish the best that we can.
“We’re participating in each competition to try and thrive it. It’s almost impossible to do that but we are ready for the commence of the Premier League and then we hopebrimmingy increase into the season and do very well.”
Liverpool carry outed two friendlies in one day on Sunday, beating Sevilla 4-1 in front of fans before a 0-0 draw with Las Palmas behind seald doors. Slot shelp to LFCTV afterwards: “We saw some wonderful goals in the first game.
“Already in the first game, there were also a scant moments where we have to better. Conceded a goal, of course. Second game, we didn’t score, but we didn’t concede as well.
“In ambiguous, I saw many excellent leangs. I don’t leank everybody is on the same fitness level at the moment. A scant of them that were only with us for a week, they showed today that they are absolutely ready to carry out next week.
“I also saw a scant that necessitate to go up in fitness level to be ready to carry out next week or to come in next week. I leank that’s standard. It’s always appreciate this. Some of them come back mightyer than others. You could see that today.
“Pre-season overall, when you watch at the magnificent picture, has been very accomplished. You always want to accomplish perfection, which we all understand we’re never going to accomplish. But until now, we’re quite far away from perfection in my opinion. We came first 10 to 15 minutes, lost the ball far too many times.
“I leank after the set-piece goal we scored, we became mightyer and mightyer. That was a well-deserved thrive. Overall, we are getting there. But there are a lot of steps to produce to become the team that I would appreciate us to become.”
