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Deffo mate they have done brilliant this season but nobody would of thought it was possible after seeing them last season.Originally posted by Chris View Post
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Colin ****** thinks Sol Bamber is a better defender.
3rd place. Worst champions ever.
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He's won 321 aerial contests, some 28 more than Bournemouth's Steve Cook, the second-highest ranked, and 95 more than Dejan Lovren.
In that same time frame, Van Dijk ranks eighth in the Premier League list for interceptions and boasts an impressive passing accuracy of 84 per cent playing the ball out from the back and 62 per cent on long balls out.
During his two-and-a-half seasons at St Mary's, Southampton won just shy of 40 per cent of their matches with Van Dijk in the side. Without him, that ratio dropped to 26.9 per cent.
And while Lovren remains prone to errors leading to goals, Van Dijk is one of only four centre-backs to play over 60 league games in the last three seasons without making a single mistake.
So it's little wonder Klopp perceives Van Dijk as the kind of commanding presence Liverpool urgently need to prevent precious points slipping down the drain.
In a similar way to their chase of Leipzig's Naby Keita, persistence and patience have been key.
There was competition from Manchester City, and he even wore their shirt when presented as a secret Santa gift last year, but Van Dijk was always keen on Liverpool and has now been granted his wish.
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Anybody who criticizes Klopp ever is a James Blunt. Nov 2015
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Video title.
Maybe he's saving himself.
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[ame="https://twitter.com/chiccada6/status/946478901437566976"]https://twitter.com/chiccada6/status/946478901437566976[/ame]Com ce, com ca.Comment
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Almost mocked that as a repost
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It's a rare Christmas tree.If we are all only happy when we are really winning in the end, when your race finishes, what life would that be?Comment
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The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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Fat Shambles says defenders are now so expensive cos he’s the only manager in the world this coaches them properly.3rd place. Worst champions ever.Comment
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho questions Jurgen Klopp over Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk signing
Mourinho suggested that the Liverpool manager should be challenged on his comments on Pogba
Mark Critchley Northern Football Correspondent @mjcritchley 30 mins ago
Jose Mourinho, the Manchester United manager, has questioned his counterpart Jürgen Klopp after Liverpool broke their transfer record to sign Virgil van Dijk from Southampton.
Van Dijk completed a £75m move to Anfield on Wednesday and became the most expensive defender in history in the process, passing the £52m paid by Manchester City for Benjamin Mendy.
As United prepared to break the world transfer record to sign Paul Pogba for £89.3m in July 2016, Klopp spoke out against exorbitant spending and claimed he would “do it differently” if he had the same resources at his disposal.
Mourinho labelled Klopp's words unethical at the time and on Friday, ahead of United's Premier League meeting with Southampton, he suggested that the Liverpool manager should be challenged on his comments on Pogba.
“You know, I think the one's that speak about it in a specific way has to be Jürgen,” he said when asked to comment on Van Dijk's move. “If I was one of you I would ask him about his comments about one year ago.
“Not speaking specifically about that case [Van Dijk] because in Liverpool they do what they want to do and I am nobody to comment on what they do.
“The reality is that if they think that the player is the right player for them and they really want the player, they pay his amount or they don't have the player because that is the way the market is at that time.”
Three days after claiming United's level of spending is “not enough” to compete with the likes of Premier League leaders City, Mourinho went on to lament the “crazy” amounts top clubs are forced to spend for their targets in the current market.
“When we compare now the amount of money certain managers and clubs spend - I am not saying 10 years ago, but three years ago - it is to compare the impossible. You cannot compare the realities.
“Virgil van Dijk is the most expensive defender in history of football, was he better than [Paolo] Maldini, [Giuseppe] Bergomi or [Rio] Ferdinand? You cannot say that, is just the way the market is and you pay or you don't pay.”
The United manager: “If you pay obviously you pay a crazy amount of money but if you don't you don't have the player. It is as simple as that, so no critics at all about what Liverpool did, is just the way it is.”
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**** off Mourinho you toxic wankstainComment
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