Former Liverpool defender, Graeme Souness has predicted that the Premier League side are likely to lose one of their top players to Real Madrid this summer.
Liverpool are set for a massive shake up during the summer with Jurgen Klopp leaving his role as manager and some players expected to follow suit.
Mohamed Salah has been heavily linked with a move to Saudi Arabia while Virgil van Dijk also faces an uncertain long-term future.
Graeme Souness has now insisted that Real Madrid might take advantage of Virgil van Dijk’s contract situation to lure him to Santiago Bernabeu.
“The fact that Virgil van Dijk’s contract end is coming up worries me, he’s 33 in July, and if his agent were to call up the sporting director at Real Madrid, they’d take him,” Souness told William Hill’s Three Up Front podcast.
“I just look at him now and the noise he’s been making, which he hasn’t done throughout his career, and I think he’s obviously unhappy.”
Souness added that the Van dijk might ask questions about the incoming Arne Slot and whether he wants to stick around for the new era at the club.
“He’ll have asked questions about the new manager already and will be the one that Arne Slot has to win over,” Souness added. “Slot must get Van Dijk onside – he’s the captain – but Van Dijk might not fancy him.
“He might’ve heard something on the grapevine and may think that this guy won’t take the team where they want to be, the clock is ticking on his career, maybe he needs to go someplace else to win more silverware. He has won two of the big ones with Liverpool, but he’s not a serial winner.”
Real Madrid have kept tabs on Van Dijk in the past. Indeed, reports from earlier in the year claimed that the Spanish giants were interested in the Dutch defender.
