Virgil van Dijk feels that Liverpool may be in for a pretty ‘big summer’ irrespective of the Premier League trophy on it’s way to Anfield.

Despite sitting thirteen points clear of second-place Arsenal and destined to claim English football’s ultimate prize for only the second time, Van Dijk insists that Liverpool can still improve substantially on Arne Slot’s debut season in charge.

As such, the worst thing FSG can do, in the captain’s opinion, is to keep the chequebook closed in the assumption that, just because Liverpool are so clear at the top this season, history is bound to repeat itself in 2025/26.

Anfield icon Jamie Carragher wants Milos Kerkez and Hugo Ekitike – Bournemouth’s buccaneering left-back and Eintracht Frankfurt’s £70 million-rated striker – among six new faces through the door.

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Though, as far as another one-time Liverpool stalwart is concerned, the best business they could possibly have done heading into the summer has already been completed before April turns to May.

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After Mo Salah ended the uncertainty surrounding his Liverpool future with a new two-year deal last week, Virgil van Dijk is here to stay at Anfield too.

To think, imagine how much either player would have cost to replace.

The man destined to come top of the Premier League’s scoring charts, and a central defender who can still lay claim to being the best on planet earth.

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Sammy Lee, a four-time First Division champion in the 1980s, can barely bring himself to imagine.

“You need to keep all your best players to win any competition,” Lee says, Trent Alexander-Arnold very much now the odd-one-out.

They have been massive in the resurgence of the football club, and I am so pleased [that both Salah and Van Dijk are staying].

“Fantastic.

“The best centre-back in Europe and best forward in Europe; If you can bring them to Liverpool, are going to cost you far more than new contracts are.

“So, irrespective of whether it’s £500,000 a week or not [in wages], it’s cheap compared to how much the alternative would be.

It’s £100 million, and then four, five hundred thousand pounds a week on top of that.

“The two best signings Liverpool will make this year.”


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