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Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk is a more complete defender than Manchester United legend Nemanja Vidic, according to former Chelsea star Frank Leboeuf.
Van Dijk's consistently superb performances for Liverpool have put him in the conversation about the Premier League's best-ever defenders.
Vidic, who won five Premier League titles with United between 2006 and 2014 and formed a supreme partnership with Rio Ferdinand at Old Trafford, is for many one of the defensive benchmarks in modern English top-flight history:
But Leboeuf, who played for Chelsea as a centre-back between 1996 and 2001 and won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 with France, believes Van Dijk has more to his game than Vidic did, per ESPN FC:
"I would go for Van Dijk.