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Apart from that, I think in modern football, a No.9 needs to work hard and be part of an intense pressing team, if you look at the teams in the Champions League semi-finals, they are all players who work their asses off.

"Pundits and media always assume we're so affected by what's being said in the media, but I don't think these two players are affected by what people say.

If they wouldn't get a contract anywhere around the world, it's not like they don't have enough money.



I think these players are old enough that they are not affected."



Van Dijk said this summer is going to be a big one — is Liverpool going to be busy in transfer market.

Maybe the players don't follow everything that's said in the media, me neither, but what I do know from sitting here all the time that it was a big thing — 'can we hold on to them, can we hold on to them?' And by holding on to Van Dijk and Salah, it's already a big summer.

"I would have said the opposite last season, because we didn't change anything and I don't think we went downwards.