The Virgil Van Dijk Stays at Southampton Thread

Yep, every club taps up. But not every club mouths of to the press as much as Liverpool do.

 

Sounds like the excuse of a playground bully to me. It's wrong whoever does it, including Southampton. However, the continuous role call of ex players and dubious pundits stating this player should go here blah blah blah are clearly overstepping the mark. This does not affect just Southampton, but every club throughout the pyramid. Unfortunately some clubs are clearly over supported by the media and have a far greater influence than they should. I just hope Barca start doing a similar campaign for Coutinho - oh wait, he's not for sale!! Sauce for goose and all that!

 

.. and for the integrity of the game we love. Shysters like Liverpool must not be seen to win this disgraceful disrespect for and abuse of the laws of the game.

 

Ex-players are allowed to voice their opinions. Nothing wrong with that. It's the agent, as always, who would have caused this ****storm.

 

Yep, this is bigger than just a player transfer now.

 

Nail. Head.

I highly doubt the Liverpool directors are in touch with Murphy etc. telling them what to say.

It's the agent/press.

 

100%.

People piss and moan but then get fed up and say sell him anyway which is exactly what he's after. Any parent knows that you dont cave in after a tantrum and let the little prick go to the movies anyway, even if its all down to his chavvy little mates egging him on and making him think he's missing out on something even though you know that the movie is a forgettable piece of crap that will never win any awards.

 

Same agent as Koeman...

 

Exactly. Says it all...

 

Do as i did, Put him on ignore. No qualms then.

 

No, but they don't need to. Every time an ex liverpool fan pipes up, the press are on it in a flash.

 

I've been saying this since about March.

We sit him down and say "Listen Virgil, you will not be going anywhere this Summer, you were happy enough to sign a 6 year deal last Summer now you can honour at least a 3rd of that, you can go to a CL team next Summer if they meet our valuation but you will be going NOWHERE this Summer"

He will soon get over his tantrum and play when he realises we mean it and he's contracted here for the best years of his career.

Like I said earlier it's a shame Holland will be out of WC qualfying by November as that would of been a big help too.

People say we can't do that, we actually can. We might not want to due to the size of the asset or the risk of a Berahinho etc. but the point is we're determined enough and we want to then we CAN do that if we choose to.

Time to make a stand.

 

Yeah of course, I'm just saying that you can't blame Liverpool the club for that.

There's plenty we can blame them for without blaming them for something which isn't their own doing.

 

What goes on in Blackpool, stays in Blackpool

 

Unfortunately I can't really do that!

 

The Romeu saga is one for next summer I reckon.

 

Along with Cedric... and maybe Gabbi?


Funny how we're at the point where we're already thinking about who is going to leave next year, I've been doing it for about 2 seasons now

 

Depressing.

 

You must have very loose morals then, not to have moved on decades ago.