The Virgil Van Dijk Stays at Southampton Thread

I'll quote the article for you and highlight the important parts. Let me know if you need me to illustrate with pictures.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/live...dijk-premier-league/fslaze2bi2lo1ldey56x2x64l

Southampton insist Virgil van Dijk and Cedric Soares are "not for sale" amid reports the club have agreed with new manager Mauricio Pellegrino that they will not allow star players to leave.
Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea are being linked with swoops for Van Dijk, while Barcelona, Juventus and Tottenham are among the clubs said to be chasing Cedric. But Les Reed, Southampton's executive director, insists his club have no plans to sell and hopes to have a quiet transfer window.
"None of those players are for sale," Reed said to Sky Sports. "I can't make it any plainer than that and that's the way we mean to go forward.
"We built this squad over some time and think we have a strong squad. We will fine-tune it but, other than that, we are looking forward to a very competitive season next year and we plan to go forward on that basis.
"It's not broken so there is no need to bring in players just because of fashion or to get people excited in the transfer market."

Would love for you to let me know how this differs to the Klopp sentiment about Coutinho?


For what it's worth. I dont think VVD will stay.

 

Double standards?
Well at least they've learnt to count to two.

 

Stop biting to Astro's ****

 

Selling him now would just encourage other players to strike if they dont get what they want.


Just string him up in a gibbet over staplewood and show the rest of the players what going on strike gets you at Saints

 

I suspect he will revert to "caught a few there", which is the go-to position of someone with no backbone who has been shown to have been wrong, and is acting like a twat.

 

He does it all the time. Just a wum

 

Do you have an example of the manager sitting in front of the press and saying "this specific player is 100% not for sale"? I've already seen the vague statements about keeping players previously made by either "the club" or your "deputy vice junior director of certain aspects of football related business operations".

Maybe because your manager has only been at the club for a few days after you sacked the last one after a season? BTW strange how loyalty is only supposed to work one way in football isn't it?

Klopp has put his personal reputation on the line with his direct quotes. That's the difference. If you do sell Van Dijk, will fans be demanding Reed resigns, or is he going to be allowed to get away with the "all to maximise our profit" excuse for blatanly lying to you all?

 

Our neggies have been clamouring for a striker for ages, now we get one they still moan, no pleasing some people.

 

Puel was sacked because he lost the loyalty of the players.

 

Thought you said Bertrand was definitely off?

 

what sort of reception would van **** get if he plays against Swansea?

 

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...es-of-a-dream-move-to-liverpool-35993867.html

Still not being sold.

 

He's one of the biggest wums on the entire site.

Probably loves it here as he just gets laughed at everywhere else.

#KloppIsOverrated

 

Would that be 20th January 2018?

 

I wouldn't boo him as that wouldn't help the team. I'd just not applaud his name when read out.

 

I was told he was , by a person very close to him. But we managed to talk him down at least for the time being. He still wants to go to a bigger club, but will not force it, unlike Van Dijk.

 

I thought "nobody from Southampton has said anything of the sort"?

Make your mind up.

 

Citeh paying big for a "better" player may have been influential?

 

That adds absolutely nothing new to what's being discussed