Virgil van Dijk Pictured At Anfield Ahead Of £75m Liverpool Move

“When you think of the stature he is now; a world record fee for a defender, I think Celtic would probably value him more than £75m and I probably would as well”.

What Liverpool have paid for Van Dijk is a great deal any way you come at it-there’s no way it looks cheap or a bargain in any light. “We have to analyse the situation that will be good personally for him and will be positive if we reinvest in our good targets for the future”.

New Liverpool signing Virgil van Dijk has become the most expensive defender in history, but where does he fit in among the most expensive transfers of all time? The Southampton defender completed his medical on Wednesday after the Saints also confirmed the agreement between the two sides, with the deal set to obviously go through this coming Monday.

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Van Dijk handed in a transfer request in the summer in the hope of forcing through a move to Anfield only for a deal to fall through when Southampton accused the Reds of an illegal approach for the player.

“If you bring one player in for £100m and he gets injured, then it all goes through the chimney”, he said a year ago.

“But for me it is not really interesting”. When I first heard it I thought “wow, £75m”.

Instead, Southampton chose to take the plunge on the centre half, buying him for £13million – and now they’re set to make a £62m profit after agreeing to sell him to Liverpool in a £75m deal.

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes the record fee will prove money well spent if Van Dijk helps the Anfield club achieve more success.

The ideal situation would have been for one this Dutchman to be replaced by fellow Dutchman, Virgil van Dijk, however things didn’t work out that way. “Half a year ago, I think, there was a big transfer for an offensive player and now we have a big transfer for a defensive player”.

“Despite a hard last few months, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Saints and have made friends for life at the club”.

Liverpool’s defence has been it’s weak point and the club will be hopeful of steadying it with the arrival of van Dijk.