Southampton assistant manager Eric Black is hopeful Virgil van Dijk will stay at St Mary's this summer.
But Black has admitted the highly-coveted Holland defender will have a choice to make in the transfer window, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City all circling Van Dijk.
Van Dijk has developed into one of the Premier League's better central defenders since moving to Southampton from Celtic in September 2015.
And that has led to significant interest from some of the top flight's best sides as they look to improve leaky defences.