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(Photo by Stephen Pond\/Getty Images)\" data-credit=\"Stephen Pond\/GettyImages\" data-date=\"2017-01-07\" data-ratio=\"16\/9\" data-crop=\"\"x\":0.05004201680672268,\"y\":0.10857142857142857,\"w\":0.902815644776429,\"h\":0.7828571428571428\" data-getty_image=\"true\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\" data-is-animated=\"false\" data-width=\"undefined\" data-height=\"undefined\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.minutemediacdn.com\/process?url=http%3A%2F%2F90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2F5919f62c4077fc3d75000001.jpg&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bw%5D=0.902815644776429&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bh%5D=0.7828571428571428&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_x%5D=0.05004201680672268&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_y%5D=0.10857142857142857&#038;filters%5Bquality%5D%5Btarget%5D=80&#038;type=.jpg&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bw%5D=578&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bh%5D=325\" alt=\"Norwich City v Southampton - The Emirates FA Cup Third Round\" title=\"Stephen Pond\/GettyImages\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">The Dutch centre-back has been linked to a host of clubs over the past few months, with Chelsea and Liverpool being reported as the most likely destinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">After liking Georginio Wijnaldum&#8217;s tweet regarding Liverpool&#8217;s victory against West Ham on the weekend, Van Dijk set\u00a0Reds fans buzzing.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>??But if you were to keep scrolling down the player&#8217;s likes on Twitter, you&#8217;d find that he liked a lot of Chelsea-related stuff too &#8211; them being Premier League champions and all.<\/p>\n<p>The defender may well be on the move this summer. After all, it would be extremely difficult for the Saints to hold on to him.<\/p>\n<p>But is a like anything to go on?<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Kavan Flavius is a regular contributor to the<\/em> <em>Official Chelsea Guest Fan Blog<\/em><em>, find him on Twitter <\/em><em>@KavanFlavius<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are part of\u00a0an era ?in which a footballer liking the social media post of a footballer from another team is considered a sign of intent. So by that measure, Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk should be on his way to Liverpool at the end of the season. The Dutch centre-back has been linked to [&hellip;]<\/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-13064","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\/13064","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=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/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=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}