PHOTO: Chelsea hope of bringing in £70million Virgil Van Dijk ‘slowed’ by Mauricio Pellegrino
Chelsea’s
move for Southampton defender as a possible replacement for former Captain,
John Terry, is being slowed by new manager of Southampton...Mauricio
Pellerino...
...despite the huge price such clubs as Chelsea, City and Liverpool
are willing to pay, Mauricio has asked the club management not to sell...as such players
like Van Dijk are a big part of his project in the coming season...
Chelsea
has already made a bid of £60million for the defender...but the club has
refused to let the Dutch defender go...but reports suggest that Van Dijk has
already made up his mind to leave the club, and could possibly force a move
away from the club...
While speaking
on the new development, Southampton Sporting Director as reported by Skynews,
said:
‘None of
those players are for sale. I can’t make it any plainer than that and that’s
the way we mean to go forward,’ Southampton’s executive director Les Reed
told Sky Sports News.
‘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.
‘There
may be players that go on the basis it is the right thing for them and the club
at that given time, but we don’t expect that to be wholesale and this is simply
doing sound business in the transfer window.
‘We track
players over years and when the new manager comes in like Mauricio, we take him
through that process. He’d done his homework on our squad and we don’t believe
we need to turn over players every year just to freshen things up.
‘We’ve
got a strong squad now and it would be about adding players bringing more value
and power. 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.
...Southampton
are well known to be a ‘selling’ club, and despite all the talks from the
Director, I still see Van Dijk leaving the club...with the right fee....
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