Liverpool will rue the decision to tell the press they’d won the race for Virgil Van Dijk for some time.
Yesterday, FSG issued an apology to Southampton, after the Saints had threatened to report us to the Premier League for blatantly tapping up the Dutch centre-back.
On Monday, at exactly 5PM, all major news outlets released the story that Van Dijk had agreed to sign for Liverpool ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City, after a source inside the club had purposely leaked the information in some kind of premature boast.
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It angered Southampton, who hadn’t accepted a bid from Liverpool and felt undermined, especially as we’ve been casually signing their best players for the past three summers.
Our former centre-back Jamie Carragher has explained exactly who should be hung out to dry:
FFS! Only person at Liverpool who should apologise is the person who fed the story he wanted to come to LFC when no fee had been agreed. https://t.co/wnlhXnqKqQ
— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) June 7, 2017
I’m blaming the person at LFC who fed it to the local press! https://t.co/UvZwrGwAzh
— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) June 7, 2017
Soton won’t be bothered LFC spoke to player/agent before them as they & all clubs do it. But will be with LFC for feeding that fact to press
— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) June 7, 2017
Liverpool’s board will now sit down with Michael Edwards and demand an explanation for the embarrassing situation we’re now in.
It’s the Sporting Director’s first summer in the job, but unless he gives reasonable answers, it may be his last.