Liverpool star 'trusts the club' despite Caicedo & Lavia transfer sagas

James Shearman

• Updated: 13 Aug 2023 14:24 BST
• 3 min read

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk stills trusts the club's recruitment despite the ongoing Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia transfer sagas.

In a truly bizarre turn of events, Caicedo seemed destined to move to Chelsea all summer before Liverpool swooped in and offered £110 million on Thursday.

It then seemed as though Liverpool had stolen the most in demand defensive midfielder on the market from under the Blues' nose.

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However, Chelsea have since convinced Caicedo to hold out for a move to Stamford Bridge and are working on agreeing a transfer fee with Brighton.

As for Lavia, he is viewed as the best alternative to Caicedo and was expected to be signed by the club that lost out on the Ecuadorian - in this case, Liverpool.

But Chelsea are now reportedly close to finalising a £50m deal for the Southampton wonderkid too.

Van Dijk on Liverpool's transfer strategy

Van Dijk said, via Goal: “We all want quality signings and that’s what we’ve done so far. So we trust the club. I definitely trust the club. They did quite good business over the last [few] years, so why not now as well?

“If you follow social media, you get dizzy with all the names. In my opinion, it’s speculation and they try to guess names to put fuel on the fire and stuff and that’s how the internet works. You’ll see us linked with almost every midfielder in the world, so just wait and see.

"We have professionals working on it and that’s the most important thing. Like I said before, we trust the club, we play for the club, and we trust the club to do the right thing. We’ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks.”