da leao： Liverpool fans are breathing a huge sigh of relief, after Paul Joyce revealed a dodged bullet in his latest transfer exclusive.
da bet sport： According to Paul Joyce’s latest piece for The Times, the Reds tracked a whopping 34 centre backs before eventually settling on Virgil van Dijk.
Van Dijk, who has quite literally turned the Reds from pretenders to contenders, was reportedly one of four “A grade” targets that Klopp and sporting director Michael Edwards wanted to sign last January.
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The other names on that top priority list were Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly, Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte (then of Athletic Bilbao) and Bayern Munich’s Jerome Boateng, and fans are now all saying the same thing about Boateng.
The colossal German international was a vital part of Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga dominance and his country’s 2014 World Cup triumph, but he is simply not the player he once was.
His 18 months been absolutely riddled with individual mistakes and nagging injuries, whereas van Dijk has proven himself to be one of the world’s finest defenders since switching to Anfield.
You can find some of the best Twitter reactions down below, where loads of fans are counting their blessings over perhaps the biggest decision of Klopp’s reign…