Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has stated he believes he can proceed to play on the highest degree for a number of years as uncertainty over his future on the membership continues.
Van Dijk — alongside teammates Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold — is out of contract on the finish of the season, with negations over a brand new deal nonetheless ongoing. The 33-year-old has thus far remained tight-lipped when quizzed on the matter however has now admitted how a lot he enjoys enjoying for Arne Slot’s aspect.
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In an interview with Prime Video, who will broadcast Liverpool’s Boxing Day conflict with Leicester Metropolis, the centre-back stated: “I really like the membership, the membership loves me. I really like the followers, the followers love me and it’s a excellent basis to achieve success.
“For my part I can play for one more three, 4 years a minimum of on the highest degree. We are going to see what the long run brings.”
Liverpool are 4 factors clear on the high of the Premier League desk with a sport in hand and now have a flawless report within the Champions League.
Reflecting on Slot’s impression since changing Jürgen Klopp in the summertime, Van Dijk added: “I feel the step from, with all respect, the Dutch league to the Premier League is a giant one by way of being a participant, however for a supervisor, it’s precisely the identical.
“He has accomplished very effectively thus far, and he has, for my part, inherited an excellent squad not solely as soccer gamers however as human beings — guys who will go to warfare for one another — and I feel he has been thus far so good.
“He makes certain we hold working, aren’t happy, concentrate on what’s forward of us subsequent, and hold bettering. You see the patterns we attempt to do, you see, we will change in video games or at half-time, and it is clearly a giant credit score to him.”