Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool boss Arne Slot says captain 'one of the few leaders left in world football'

18 April 2025, 16:23 | Updated: 18 April 2025, 19:17

Virgil van Dijk is "one of the few leaders there are still in the world of football", Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has told Sky Sports.

Van Dijk, who joined the Reds from Southampton for a then-world-record fee for a defender of £75m in January 2018, put pen-to-paper on a new two-year deal earlier this week, keeping him at Liverpool until the summer of 2027.

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