16 Jun 2014 11:28:18
The mirror are today reporting Ronald Koeman is lining up Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk as his first signing as Southampton manager.
£8 million is the likely figure.
Liverpool target Lovren has handed in a transfer request, while stalwart Fonte revealed he will consider his options if his contract - which has one year left to run - is not extended.

22-year-old Van Dijk signed for Celtic last June in a £2.6m deal from Eredivisie club FC Groningen and scored five goals in 45 appearances for the Scottish champions.

Koeman is a long-term admirer of Holland Under-21 star Van Dijk after he netted in both fixtures against his Feyenoord side in 2012.

Mauricio Pochettino's replacement has been promised he will have a sizeable transfer kitty to rebuild the team.

Saints owner Katharina Liebherr is willing to reinvest the revenue generated by the sale of England forward Rickie Lambert to Liverpool and the expected summer transfers of Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana.

anyone know if this player is any good? our last signing from celtic for big money hasn't really been successful (wanyama)

1.) 16 Jun 2014
Meant to have great potential as is he is still very young but he looks to be very good on the ball and enjoys going forward and not shy of a shot or 2

2.) 16 Jun 2014
Wanyama's been quality, he's not in the team to pretty stuff, he's there to get in the way and break stuff up, people who don't realise that think he's been terrible, people who do think he's been great.

Van Dijk looks great too, similar to Caulker but better

50 mil + player sales is what we offered poch, can't see it being different for Koeman

3.) 16 Jun 2014
Being a tabloid newspaper take this story with a pinch of salt, they still seem keen to say we are definitely losing many key players this summer.

This story isn't so much them telling us we could be getting Van Dijk as telling everyone again they think our key players will leave. Van Dijk is just their idea of one of the possible replacements.

Van Dijk has got an obvious link to us being young and Dutch and having a history against Koeman. They have just put 2 and 2 together I think, we could be interested for real but I imagine the mirror would be none the wiser.

4.) 16 Jun 2014
16 Jun 2014 16:55:12
That makes excellent sense Phil.

5.) 16 Jun 2014
I will admit that wasn't exactly my greatest work of literature Magiccabbage.

6.) 16 Jun 2014
16 Jun 2014 17:43:37
I was actually being honest :-( I agreed with you lol

7.) 16 Jun 2014
My apologies, I misunderstood you. Thanks for the comment.