Liverpool fans can Really help push for Virgil van Dijk move to Anfield on Saturday - John Aldridge
Liverpool eventually held off from making a bid after being accused of tapping up Van Dijk.
which after the Dutchman handed in transfer request to help push for a dream move to Anfield.
Van Dijk has since expressed his happiness to continue fighting at St Mary’s.
However, Aldridge points out Liverpool are still in need of his services and need to help lure him to Merseyside for longer than Saturday afternoon when he visits with Southampton.
“It's going to be a difficult afternoon for Virgil van Dijk,” Aldridge wrote in his column for the Liverpool Echo.
“He's professional and he has to do his job for his current team, but it's a strange situation. We're desperate for him, he's desperate for us, everyone knows it.
“I remember playing for Oxford at Anfield and the Kop sung my name. It meant the absolute world to me. We got beat 6-0, mind you! I think my fellow columnist Jan Molby might have scored two, and all.
“I don't think we'll get that on Saturday with Van Dijk but I hope he gets a good reception. It can help a player when they know they're wanted somewhere” John Aldridge
“It can help a player when they know they're wanted somewhere. We all want to see him at Anfield on a full-time basis, because he fits the criteria of what we need.”
Liverpool getting all the three point on Saturday will definitely push up their resurgence for the Top four chase.
With increasingly concern over Klopp defense, it will be interesting to see them making him another top target coming January transfer window.
