Virgil van Dijk is more aware of the ‘fantastic’ transfer rumors that Liverpool are being embroiled in their search for midfielders, but he insists he ‘trusts’ the club.
The Reds made two summer signings and agreed a British record for Moises Caicedo in the early hours of Friday morning, although Chelsea were back on the table.
This time of year is constantly inundated with rumors, speculation and requests for team repair, and fans aren’t the only ones ‘wanting quality signings’.
Van Dijk knows how important it is to improve the team, but he ‘trusts’ Liverpool to get the job done, as they have done in the past – look at his own arrival in 2018.
“The reality is, whether we need to sign a player for a particular position, yes or no, any top club wants to improve their squad,” the captain said. with reporters.
“Why don’t we as players want to improve our team? We all want quality signings and that’s what we’ve done so far. So we’re here. Trust the club.
Confident words from the Dutchman, who spoke openly about transfers in the age of social media and the role it plays in churning out a ‘dizzying’ list of possible targets.
It is fair to say that he has his finger on the pulse and his words are refreshing as he doubled down on the trust he has for Liverpool to “do the right thing.”
“If you follow social media or anything, you get dizzy with the names,” Van Dijk continued. “So I think everyone is saying names just to be the first one to say names nowadays.
“It’s speculation and they try to guess names to put fuel on the fire and stuff and that’s how the internet works.
“And you know, so what I said already before, we trust the club, we play for the club, and we trust the club to do the right thing for the club, and we’ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks still.
“If you watch social media, if you watch all the other stuff and you see us linked with almost every midfielder in the world or any other player and everyone is a sporting director nowadays on social media then you know you get dizzy, so just wait and see.
“We have professionals working on it. And like I said, I trust the club. And that’s the most important thing.”
Talking of the club and the chief decision makers, Liverpool owner John Henry and members of FSG have flown in for the opening match at Chelsea – oh, to be a fly on the wall!
But as the captain has said, now we “wait and see” what the next few weeks has in store – hopefully, that includes new quality names to the squad.
