Virgil van Dijk is so important to the Liverpool cause that it is now difficult to “measure what he does for us”, admits the Dutchman’s Anfield team-mate Joe Gomez.
Any initial questions of the £75 million ($98m) transfer fee it took to take the commanding centre-half to Merseyside in 2018 have been silenced in style.
Van Dijk has become a talismanic figure for Jurgen Klopp, with his mere presence considered to have helped lift Liverpool to the heights they currently occupy.
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