Van Dijk and Liverpool: contract running to 30 June 2027, 'otherwise I'll go somewhere else'
According to Goal.com, Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk, whose contract runs to 30 June 2027, has spoken about his future without hiding a possible move 'somewhere else'.
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Virgil van Dijk, Liverpool's captain since January 2018, has spoken in recent days about his contract, which expires on 30 June 2027: from February he would be free to sign for another club. The Dutch centre-back, born in 1991, said that, in his words, "if the contract is extended, fine", but that otherwise he will "go somewhere else" (translated from Italian). Milan are watching him, and last summer the club's owner Gerry Cardinale had given the idea more than one thought. In this round the figure is always the same: no official talks, no offer.
The news is not a transfer, and it is worth saying at once: it is a player speaking about a contract that is running out. The expiry is set at 30 June 2027: from that point the Dutch centre-back, born in 1991, would be free. The reasoning around the dates is what matters, because from 1 February the market rule would allow him to sign for his next club.
Van Dijk's words, reported as they are (translated from Italian), are these: "I feel fine but at the moment there is no news and I am not panicking about it. I want to keep playing and carry on with what I am doing. If the contract is extended, fine. Otherwise, I will go somewhere else." There is no accusation and no farewell: there is a player telling reporters he feels fine and is in no hurry. The source does not specify which outlet gathered the interview, and attributes the account around the words to itself.
The figure that decides is game time: van Dijk has played 15 matches this season across the league, the Champions League and the Carabao Cup. The article says the physical response has been encouraging, but this is where it stops: performance is the club's business, not the newspaper's, and the player turned 35 in July.
On the market the emphasis is on Milan. Last summer Gerry Cardinale, Milan's owner and a shareholder in Fenway Sports, the fund that controls Liverpool, gave van Dijk more than one thought. Milan will reinforce its defence with a centre-back in January anyway, and the names circulating according to the source are Gonçalo Inacio of Sporting Lisbon and Massiré Sylla of Union Saint-Gilloise. Van Dijk is not only of interest to Milan: the big clubs of the Turkish league, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce above all, "would have the financial room" for a significant salary. Neither has made an offer, and the source quotes no figures.
One detail, also attributed, concerns the past: van Dijk spoke of Milan as a club he loved, naming "Nesta" and "Maldini". It is a statement about the past, not a hint of a future in red and black. On the market the network has also covered Vinicio Binaghi's proposal on money and football, while the rest of today's sport on television is in the Friday schedule.