{"id":12881,"date":"2017-05-08T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/05\/08\/southampton-manager-claude-puel-claims-virgil-van-dijk-will-still-be-at-club-next-season\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T21:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T21:01:31","slug":"southampton-manager-claude-puel-claims-virgil-van-dijk-will-still-be-at-club-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=12881","title":{"rendered":"Southampton Manager Claude Puel Claims Virgil van Dijk Will Still Be at Club Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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?Southampton manager Claude Puel has claimed that in-demand defender Virgil van Dijk will still be at the club next season,\u00a0?Sky Sports\u00a0have reported.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old centre-back has been strongly linked with a move to Premier League leaders Chelsea, while\u00a0Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal are also rumoured to be interested.<\/inline><\/p>\n

Southampton were expected to demand an astronomical fee for for van Dijk, although it seems they are now reluctant to sell at all.<\/inline><\/p>\n


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Reports have suggested that the player could demand a world record fee for a defender, higher than the \u00a350m PSG paid Chelsea for David Luiz in 2014.<\/inline><\/p>\n

But van Dijk extended his contract only last summer with the Saints, meaning that he still has five years left to run on his current deal.<\/inline><\/p>\n

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The towering Dutchman has impressed since joining Southampton for \u00a313m in 2015, particularly this season. He has 21 Premier League appearances to his name in a side that boast one of the division’s meanest defensive records, and a further eight starts in cup competitions.<\/inline><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

?Southampton manager Claude Puel has claimed that in-demand defender Virgil van Dijk will still be at the club next season,\u00a0?Sky Sports\u00a0have reported. The 25-year-old centre-back has been strongly linked with a move to Premier League leaders Chelsea, while\u00a0Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal are also rumoured to be interested. Southampton were expected to demand an astronomical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}