In an enormous reduction for Liverpool, their captain Virgil van Dijk in adopted the footsteps of his teammate Mohamed Salah and signed a two-year contract extension with the membership on Thursday. The Netherlands defender’s future was up within the air for the previous couple of months, with speculations working rampant that he might go away the membership after his deal expired on the finish of the season.
“I’m very joyful, very proud. There are such a lot of feelings, clearly, that undergo my head proper now talking about it. It’s a proud feeling, it’s a sense of pleasure. It’s simply unbelievable. The journey I’ve had to date in my profession, to have the ability to lengthen it with one other two years at this membership is superb and I’m so joyful,” Van Djik stated on the Liverpool web site.
“It was all the time Liverpool. That was the case. It was all the time in my head, it was all the time the plan and it was all the time Liverpool. There wasn’t any doubt in my head that that is the place to be for me and my household,” the defender added.
The skipper stays. pic.twitter.com/5aCZj0WndC
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 17, 2025
The 33-year-old Dutchman joined Liverpool from Southampton initially of 2018 for $100 million, a then world-record price for a defender. He gained a Premier League title in addition to the Champions League, the FA Cup, two English League Cups and the Membership World Cup.
Virgil van Dijk has as we speak signed a brand new contract with the Reds to increase his time with the membership past the 2024-25 season 🙌😀
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 17, 2025
“It all the time felt proper. I stated it from the primary day on that it felt proper and I feel it confirmed within the years we’ve spent collectively up till now. And clearly extra years to come back. It’s the place for me to be, to spend my finest years, achieve success with the membership as we’ve been over time and hopefully the longer term as properly,” he stated.
Final week, his teammate Salah additionally has signed a brand new contract extension at Liverpool for 2 years thereby ending months of uncertainty over his future. Salah’s future was a significant level on the membership on condition that he’s established himself as a membership legend throughout his stint on the Merseyside membership with 243 targets in 394 appearances.
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