Reds line up trio of Van Dijk replacements

Nico Schlotterbeck may exchange Virgil van Dijk (Picture by Christof Koepsel/Getty Photographs)

Liverpool are preserving their choices open in case Virgil van Dijk leaves on a free switch this summer season, with three defenders reportedly on their radar.

In line with Christian Falk, the Reds are contemplating Nico Schlotterbeck, Marc Guehi, and Konstantinos Koulierakis as potential replacements for his or her captain.

The Dutchman’s contract is ready to run out on the finish of the season, and whereas negotiations have been ongoing for months, no extension has been agreed. Van Dijk has performed down considerations over his future, insisting there’s no rush to decide – however with time working out, hypothesis is rising.

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Current stories have even linked the 32-year-old with a profitable transfer to Saudi Arabia, the place Al-Hilal are mentioned to be keen to supply an enormous deal to lure him away from Anfield.

If Van Dijk does go away, Liverpool will face the daunting activity of changing a participant who has been one in every of Europe’s greatest defenders for years.

That’s why the Merseyside membership are already scouting potential successors. Schlotterbeck, Guehi, and Koulierakis are all youthful choices who may step in to fill the void, although none can be a straightforward like-for-like alternative.

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Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk is out of contract in June (Picture by Carl Recine/Getty Photographs)

For now, Van Dijk stays a Liverpool participant, however along with his contract state of affairs unresolved, the membership is making ready for all potentialities.

“That is true. We at BILD revealed this week. Liverpool have Nico Schlotterbeck on their record, which is really an honour,” he mentioned.

“He can be Virgil van Dijk’s successor. Nonetheless, sure, it’s not but… to the purpose the place you possibly can say it’s actually very, very concrete.

“You must say, they’re in search of that place. They might additionally spend cash on that place. However there are a number of different scorching candidates we’ve heard about. Marc Guehi, I hope I’m announcing that appropriately, from Crystal Palace is claimed to be proper on the prime. Market worth €40 million. They’d be keen to take that on.”