Liverpool legend Stan Collymore has claimed that Virgil van Dijk is set to hold a meeting soon to finalize a move away from Southampton during the January transfer window.
The Dutch international van Dijk is said to be in a state of frustration after he was not allowed to join Liverpool this summer as it was his desire.
The Reds however are still keen on signing the player and Chelsea are also interested. As van Dijk is arguably one of the best defenders in the Premier League, it is easy to understand why he may want a move away from St Mary’s.
At 26, he will now be at a stage of his career where he will feel that he should be playing in the Champions League as well as for a club that can offer him Champions League football.
Collymore now believes that he will hold a meeting to finalize a move away from St Mary’s over the coming days and wrote in his column for the Daily Mirror, “Of the three [Van Dijk, Sanchez, Coutinho], I’d expect Van Dijk to have the toughest reception.
“He looked as if he’d gone a bit ‘Big Time Charlie’ when he started posting moody pictures on private jets and I wouldn’t expect old-school pros like Steven Davis to accept that.
“The poison has perhaps been injected so deep into Van Dijk’s relationship with the Saints that, unlike Coutinho, I can’t see a way back in the long term.
“So don’t be surprised to hear of a meeting in the next few weeks designed to get him out of St Mary’s in January. Sometimes in football, that’s the only way to sort it once and for all.”
