‘Virgil van Dijk is not for sale in this window’, says Southampton chairman

The defender handed in a transfer request, with Liverpool and Chelsea said to be interested.

Southampton chairman Ralph Krueger is adamant that Virgil van Dijk is "not for sale in this window" as keeping the defender is "the statement we need to make" at this juncture.

This summer has been dominated by big-money transfers and agitated players, with the future of Saints' unsettled 26-year-old centre-back one of the more turbulent sagas.