Virgil van Dijk Set for Five-Year Extension

According to the “Here we go!” guy.

It’s been a strange Virgil van Dijk-filled news day.
According to Italian journalist and transfer rumour hawker Fabrizio
Romano, Liverpool
FC are set to hand their big guy in the middle of defence a
whopping five-year extension to his current contract, despite the
player currently being sidelined with an anterior cruciate ligament
injury.

Speaking to the Que Golazo podcast, Romano said:

Liverpool want in the new year to open new talks with the agent
of Virgil van Dijk to extend his contract.

They are so happy with the player, and van Dijk is so happy with
Liverpool, so immediately after his injury they were saying ‘ok you
are injured, but, you are our leader, so we also want you in the
future.

At the moment he has two more seasons of his contract at
Liverpool, but they’re ready to extend for the next five years, so
those talks are going to take place in the new year.

Liverpool will go with van Dijk in the future, they don’t want
to sell him. Jurgen Klopp is absolutely a big fan of van Dijk.

An extension was rumoured in the off-season before Jordan
Pickford did what Jordan Pickford does, so this isn’t coming out of
nowhere. However, if true, it sounds like the club has plenty of
confidence that big Virg will be back to his best on the pitch, and
is also a big statement of the value the club places on the many
other intangibles he brings along off it – his leadership, cool
vibes, and impeccable hair. Come back soon, big lad.