Liverpool have been given fresh encouragement in their pursuit of Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk.
Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino spoke to the press on Thursday in the buildup to the clash between the two sides on Saturday and was asked if Van Dijk would be a Southampton player come the end of the January transfer window.
"I don’t know," he said, per David Anderson of the Daily Mirror. "I can’t control the market. You never know, because when we talk about money everybody has got a price. The budget is to sign players and the biggest teams have got money to try to sign players.