Virgil van Dijk has spoken out on Liverpool's potential appointment of Feyenoord manager Arne Slot, and offered a brutal view of the Reds' loss to Everton
Reds bosses opened negotiations with Feyenoord on Wednesday as they ramp up efforts to appoint a successor to the German, who confirmed in January that he would leave the club at the end of the season.
And speaking after the Reds’ Merseyside derby defeat to Everton, Van Dijk was full of praise for his compatriot. “Game likes these, the bare minimum is fight,” he said in the mixed zone. “We were lacking that at so many moments in games; small challenges, some passes that were not clear so we came into challenges that they win and they get momentum out of it.
“So now it's time to record and pick ourselves up again because we have to do it for ourselves, the club and the fans. It's not only that you go out there and play your game, you have to do much more than that. “We kept doing that and that's our big credit. But now it's crunch time and we've not been good enough in the way we finished the chances off, in the way we defended together and also the fight.
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