Look away now Liverpool fans.
After the bombshell announcement that Jurgen Klopp would be leaving Anfield at the end of the season after nine years at the helm, Virgil van Dijk has admitted he “doesn’t know” if he will remain on Merseyside beyond the end of his contract.
The Dutch centre-back, who turns 33 this summer, has been paramount to Liverpool’s recent success but his deal is up at the end of next season.
“The club will have a big job on their hands, that is well known,” Van Dijk said. “To replace the manager and replace not only the manager, the staff is leaving, and there are so many things that will change, so the club has a big job on its hands.
“I am very curious which direction that will go in. But when that will be announced we will see our situation. I can’t say now.”
Pushed further if he thinks he will be part of the post-Klopp era, he added: “That’s a big question. Well, I don’t know.”
Van Dijk joined from Southampton in January 2018 and played a key role in Liverpool’s 2019 Champions League win and the Reds’ first domestic title in 30 years.
Liverpool are currently top of the Premier League and Van Dijk, who was given the armband after the departure of Jordan Henderson to Saudi Arabia last summer, insisted he remains fully committed to giving Klopp the perfect send-off and adding another Premier League title to the club’s roll of honour.Re
“Obviously it will be the end of Jurgen Klopp’s era, I am very glad that I am still part of it,” he added. “That is why I don’t like to speak about it. I am still part of it. That is my main focus now and we will see at the end of the season.
“Hopefully we have the success that we all dream of and fight for each and every day. By then, there will probably be more clarification about what the club wants for the future and then we will see.”
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