Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Liverpool cool Van Dijk chase
VIRGIL VAN DIJK could be forced to stay at St Mary’s with Liverpool reluctant to wreck their renewed relationship with Southampton.
The £60million-rated defender is training alone after telling new boss Mauricio Pellegrino he wants to leave – and the centre-half will not travel to France this week for a training camp and friendly against Saint Etienne.
But following peace talks involving the owners, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will not bid for Van Dijk unless Saints stage a U-turn on their insistence that they will not sell.