"The most valuable center back in football, worth 75 million pounds! Southampton accepted Liverpool's offer, and the two parties have reached an agreement. It has become a fact that Dutch center back Van Dijk will join the Red Army. Will he become the cornerstone of Liverpool's defense?"
On the morning of January 5th, England’s Sky Sports suddenly made a huge announcement.
Liverpool, which had previously publicly announced that it had given up on Van Dijk, suddenly reached a transfer agreement with Southampton.
This amazing turn of events made many media dumbfounded, and the transfer fee was still 75 million pounds, which really made the English media feel a little incredible.
Van Dijk worth £75m?
Nonsense!
Real Madrid's Ramos and Barcelona's Pique, two world-class central defenders, are estimated to be worth only about 50 million euros. This premium is too outrageous.
At noon, Liverpool's official website announced another breaking news.
That is Coutinho's transfer to La Liga giants Barcelona for 130 million pounds.
If converted into euros, that would be more than 160 million euros.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately shocked the entire football world. It turned out that there was something even more outrageous.
By comparison, Van Dijk's £75 million doesn't seem to be much.
So the media immediately turned their attention to Coutinho, Neymar's successor.
On January 6, Liverpool held a media conference for Van Dijk. At Liverpool, he will soon wear the No. 4 jersey that represents the core of the defense.
Klopp also talked about the club's intention to introduce Van Dijk at the press conference.
After hearing Klopp's explanation, many fans no longer objected to this signing.
But individual Liverpool fans opposed these two transactions extremely fiercely.
They believe that the club should use its limited transfer budget to pursue centre-backs who have proven their ability in the top league.
Some radical fans even went to protest outside Liverpool's Melwood training base, yelling at the club's senior management for selling top striker Coutinho and buying an unknown Dutch centre-back.
As a result, many Liverpool fans who were neutral in this incident were also shaken up. They began to take notice and continued to criticize Liverpool's two large transactions in the winter window transfer market on social media.
Van Dyke's home on the banks of the Mersey River in the southern suburbs of Liverpool.
Van Dijk, who had just moved house, saw what Liverpool fans were saying about him online, and his originally good mood suddenly turned a little depressed.
Previously, Liverpool suddenly announced that it would stop all negotiations with him, which really made Van Dijk very frustrated. He once thought that he had missed the opportunity to enter a wealthy club, but he never expected that there would be a turn of events.
Van Dyke's wife, Rick, walked behind the sofa and looked at the mobile phone in Van Dyke's hand, her face suddenly full of helplessness.
She knows her husband too well and cares very much about what the fans think of him.
"Virgil, you don't actually need to care about these remarks. As long as you perform well in the game, these remarks will turn into praise for you." Rick bent over and hugged Van Dyke's neck on the sofa and said.
"I know!" Van Dyke nodded when he heard this, smiled a little reluctantly, kissed Li Ke, and the depression on his face was dispelled a lot.
"Monk Hua, come back! I order you to return your pants to me immediately!"
At this moment, a shout came from outside the living room window.
Van Dyke and Rick were a little curious. They went to the window and took a look, and saw an Asian young man chasing a white Labrador puppy.
What’s funny is that the puppy actually had a pair of black boxer briefs in its mouth and was running around on the lawn avoiding the pursuit of Asian youths.
"I bought it!"
Van Dyke saw the Asian man's face clearly, and his eyes suddenly widened.
"What's wrong?" Gu
Rick was a little surprised. He rarely saw Van Dyke show such a shocked expression.
"It's Yang! Yang is actually our neighbor! God! This is so amazing! Unbelievable!" Van Dyke laughed heartily, his face full of surprise.
In fact, transferring in the middle of the season will be more or less hasty, because it is difficult for you to integrate into a new team in a short period of time, let alone be able to play games quickly.
The previous depression in his heart was somewhat due to this factor.
He is worried that he will not be able to integrate into the team, which will have a great impact on his state and self-confidence.
Now that Mo Yang appears, he sees a shortcut to quickly integrate into the team.
"Honey, do you know who he is?" Van Dyke held Li Ke and pointed to Mo Yang outside the window, who was chasing the dog in the afternoon, and smiled.
"Who?" Rick's curiosity was aroused by the mysterious Van Dyke.
“Liverpool’s current midfield core is the team’s brains commander!”
"Oh my god! He's also a Liverpool player?" Rick was very shocked.
"Wahaha! I caught you!"
On the lawn, Mo Yang, a vicious dog, pounced on the food and successfully caught the hind legs of the little Labrador.
This puppy was a New Year's gift from Xiao Di. It had just arrived in his hands from China the day before yesterday. Xiao Di ordered him to take care of the dog like he took care of her. He was not allowed to raise it to death, otherwise it would make Mo Yang look good.
What else could Mo Yang say, he could only accept the order happily. In fact, he didn't resist cats and dogs, and even liked them very much, but he just didn't have time to keep them before.
Since joining Liverpool, he has had fewer hours per day than when he was at Leeds United.
Every morning he has to perform various fitness training under Elena's video supervision, and after that he has to practice shooting. He is really very busy.
Apart from competitions, he is actually training even while sleeping.
He even got his driver's license, but he hasn't had time to buy a car until now.
"Monk Hua, don't hold my clothes in your mouth next time, or I'll stew you!" Mo Yang grabbed the back of the little guy's neck and pointed at his underwear and said, regardless of whether the dog could understand or not.
This lively little thing is indeed very cute, but his hobbies are a bit strange. He likes to pick up his clothes, especially those smelly things like underwear and sneakers. If you don't pay attention, he will pick them up and hide them so that you can't find them.
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"Yang! Do you still remember me?"
Suddenly hearing voices coming from behind, Mo Yang was startled and hurriedly stood up. Monk Hua escaped from the clutches and took the opportunity to sneak back home with his tail between his legs.
Mo Yang was very surprised to see that it was Southampton's central defender who impressed him so much.
He knew that Gerald had rented out the house, but he didn't expect that the new neighbor would be this guy.
"Welcome, buddy!" Mo Yang said with a smile as he shook hands and hugged Van Dyke, making a pun.
There has been a lot of news about Van Dijk's transfer recently, how could he not know about it.
The arrival of Van Dijk is actually a huge good thing for Liverpool's defense.
The most direct impact on Mo Yang is that he doesn't have to worry about problems with his cheating defense every time he steps forward to participate in the attack.
With this guy here, I can't say that it's rock solid, but those low-level mistakes that often occur should disappear completely.
In the game against Southampton, Van Dijk's performance was truly world-class. He was able to defend against Salah and Mane and the others had no temper at all.
Until now, Mo Yang would hear Salah and the other three mention Van Dijk from time to time.
Next, Mo Yang accepted Van Dyke's invitation and attended Van Dyke's moving family dinner, and the two became friends smoothly.
The next day, Mo Yang even got directly into Van Dijk's car and headed to the Melwood training base.