The Virgil Van Dijk Stays at Southampton Thread

Well, seeing one of our players eating chips is enough to give anyone a frite!

 

Just get worried if it's mayo rather than ketchup....

 

You had to try and wedge a pun into the proceedings didn't you

 

Cod knows why he would ever want to leave this plaice and fritter his future away.....

 

I thought I had succeeded. Pun. Or Pun not. There is no try.

 

I once entered 10 puns in a pun contest to see if one would win..............No pun in ten did!!!!!!

 

Next ex Liverpool player to say VVD should go to Liverpool? Ali Dia enthusiast Graeme Souness:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...Southampton-Transfer-News-Gossip-Quotes-Klopp

 

This is really taking the piss now! Yet another LFC ex piling on!!!!
So is this the LFC way to continue to put pressure on Saints.
I wonder if the old boys club, have a directive from the club, to covertly put the pressure on Saints to sell VVD!

 

Well for me it is obvious that Liverpool want VVD and as he hasn't thrown his toys out of the pram and gone on strike it suggests to me that one of the following has happened:

1) He isn't that bothered about moving to Liverpool and is happy to continue playing for Saints
2) Negotiations are on going between Saints and Liverpool and are looking positive for him to move so he is just waiting for the outcome
3) He has come to an arrangement with Saints similar to Morgan about giving us one more season and then he can go

One of those seems the most likely

 

I think it's 2. Nothing to back it up, just a gut feeling.

Like you say it's gone very quiet and I'm not so sure that's good, we know he wants to leave and we know he was pissed off that the Pool deal fell through the first time. So it's either 2 or 3 that has already happened imo.

Definitely not 1

 

My gut is with #3. It has hash browns too.

 

I think it's 4. I just don't know what 4 is yet.

 

4. Run his contract down to the last year, then sign a new one.

 

Would have thought this was counterproductive though. Lots of pundits and ex-players talking about Virgil going to Liverpool would surely harden Saints stance. The only thing it does is keep the pot stirring with fans and the media. Liverpool's best chance (if they have one) is to work quietly behind the scenes.

And why do all these people think it is essential that Liverpool land Virgil....where are the people who think it is important that we keep him? I can only think that Liverpool are so poor, whereas we are so brilliant that we don't need him

 

With the daily dose of ex Liverpool players in the media piling pressure on the VVD transfer could almost be coriographed.... Surely not? That would be naughty?
Classless bunch

 

As Liverpool is a name from the past, all their famous players are now ex players. Most of them are simply answering media questions and as it's pre season there ain't much to talk about. Some of the responses to those questions have lacked respect, but surely no one believes ex players are calling newspapers to put pressure on Van Dijk.

 

No one believes that, of course. Tooth fairy, Santa Claus and Easter Bunny are OK though

 

I have developed a new respect for Mark Lawrenson and his Scots buddy Alan Hansen as they were never scouts and touts for Liverpool while working in the media.

Both have remained very quiet through all this media hype regarding VVD. That is real class and class is a word you don't usually use in the same sentence as Liverpool.

The truth is they had and have sufficient good manners to respect other clubs and they lived and played through a period of time when Liverpool was a great club.

This latest inept bunch of very ordinary ex Liverpool players posing as pundits do not have the same class or dignity as Hansen or Lawrenson and their playing experience is linked to recent times when Liverpool have become just another run of the mill and rather mediocre football club.

Liverpool lost its magic a long time ago.

 

I wouldn't want the club to slip into paranoia, victim or siege mentality mode, after all one of the ways we can continue to attract good players is to offer fair treatment. It's also how this naive fan would prefer to view his club.

It's not even about respect, you'll look long and hard to find much of that in the wonderfull world of football. It's more about media influence these days. All the major media institutions struggle to see beyond top 6 (by fanbase or £) and there is appropriate reporting bias. E.G. you could feel the resistance right up to Leicester winning the league, 9 out of 10 stories being about how the ballon would burst.

Greed is at the centre of it all and has made monsters of some players, fans and club's ethea.