Liverpool broke their transfer record to sign Dutch international Virgil van Dijk from the Saints in the last winter transfer window.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old star is one of the best central defenders in the world and he has transformed Liverpool’s back line with his leadership.<\/p>\n
If reports are anything to go by then a Turkish center half wants to play for the Reds in future.<\/p>\n
Read:\u00a0<\/strong>Klopp \u2018ready\u2019 to sign \u00a3200,500-a-week star for Liverpool<\/a><\/p>\n Bursaspor center back Ertugrul Ersoy has confirmed in a recent interview and claimed (Sabah\u00a0translated by Turkish Football:<\/p>\n \u201cI dream of playing for Europe, for me the pinnacle would be playing for Liverpool,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI want to play for Liverpool but in the short term I aim to become Bursaspor captain and then perhaps move to the Bundesliga before making my next step.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The 21-year-old defender has so far featured in 12 games in the Turkish Super Lig this season and scored 1 goal. He made his senior international debut last month in a friendly fixture vs Bosnia.<\/p>\n In the current campaign, so far, the Reds have played 12 league games and conceded just 5 goals.\u00a0The Merseysiders do not need to strengthen their defense at the moment and should look to amplify the depth of their attack in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liverpool broke their transfer record to sign Dutch international Virgil van Dijk from the Saints in the last winter transfer window. The 27-year-old star is one of the best central defenders in the world and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,704,757],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11212,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions\/11212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}