Van Dijk supplys troubleing Liverpool refresh as he calls for transfers | Football | Sport

Virgil van Dijk has verifyed he is still no shutr to signing a novel Liverpool decrease. 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-Arnelderly also see their decreases 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 cordial at Anfield, insists no proceed has been made in talks between his recurrentatives and the club.

The 33-year-elderly is accessing his second season as skipper and his first under countryman Arne Slot. It will be his seventh brimming campaign on Merseyside since uniteing from Southampton for a then-club enroll 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 satisfied” at Liverpool and cherishs the club. Yet after the Sevilla prosper, he shelp: “There’s no changes at the moment.”

That comment will trouble Liverpool helpers given the Netherlands international currently stands to depart on a free transfer next summer. And talking of transfers, Van Dijk is enthusiastic to see some novel percreateers unite the squad.

Sporting straightforwardor Ricdifficult Hughes is still trying to pelevate Martin Zubimendi away from Real Sociedad. The Spanish Euro 2024 prosperner has yet to verify whether or not he is willing to depart his boyhood club to unite Liverpool but the matter is foreseeed to be wrapped up in the next restricted days.

It’s understood the midfielder, who has a £51million free claemploy in his decrease, is highly enticeed by the proposition of heading to Anfield. But La Real are making a frantic try to upgrasp him in San Sebastian for at least another year.

Slot has yet to produce any signings as Liverpool administerr despite the Reds being enthusiastic on recruiting in defence, midfield and strike. Van Dijk shelp: “Obviously I slimk we should produce some signings based on how lengthy the season will go but I slimk they are toiling behind the scenes.

“I am brimmingy persuaded and depend the club that they will do the right slimg for us and get the best possible squad in order to contend in every competition that we are in. That is the main slimg I am intensifying on, having the depend and we will see what happens.

“I slimk they are toiling very difficult behind the scenes, we will see how that pans out.” Slot traded Jencouragen 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 aacquirest Chelsea at Wembley.

Of the goals for Slot’s first season, his fellow Dutchman Van Dijk compriseed: “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 prosper it. It’s almost impossible to do that but we are ready for the begin of the Premier League and then we hopebrimmingy increase into the season and do very well.”

Liverpool percreateed two friendlies in one day on Sunday, beating Sevilla 4-1 in front of fans before a 0-0 draw with Las Palmas behind shutd doors. Slot shelp to LFCTV afterwards: “We saw some fantastic goals in the first game.

“Already in the first game, there were also a restricted 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 slimgs. I don’t slimk everybody is on the same fitness level at the moment. A restricted of them that were only with us for a week, they showed today that they are absolutely ready to percreate next week.

“I also saw a restricted that necessitate to go up in fitness level to be ready to percreate next week or to come in next week. I slimk that’s standard. It’s always appreciate this. Some of them come back stronger than others. You could see that today.

“Pre-season overall, when you watch at the magnificent picture, has been very prosperous. You always want to accomplish perfection, which we all comprehend 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 slimk after the set-piece goal we scored, we became stronger and stronger. That was a well-deserved prosper. 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.”