Where are all the good centre-backs? Scouts at the Premier League’s big six will have their work cut out for them this summer, while Jurgen Klopp may as well sit back with a cigar and relish the fact that, for now, he looks to have made one of the most important signings of a generation in Virgil van Dijk. Not only has the Dutchman been hugely influential for Liverpool in their rise to becoming Premier League and European Champions, but he also happened to be the last (for now) of an apparently dying breed. Most of the big six were after Van Dijk while he was at Southampton, and how they must all be ruing the day they were beaten to his signature. Now every single one of Manchester City,...
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