27 Dec 2017 19:15:32
Want to stress that this isn't a dig at the eds cause i know it might be seen that way! Just genuinely curious.

ED001, you've said a few times since the summer that we've moved on from VVD, so am just wondering whether why you didn't know about it? Has the club just played this one that close to their chests and shut down any leaks that much since the summer? Appreciate it.

Cheers, Kyle.

{Ed001's Note - because it was a case of us looking elsewhere until Saints gave the green light. It was all up to the Saints, Van Dijk spent all summer begging them to allow him to join us, as I said at the time. As soon as they decided that they would sell to us, there was only a fee to be agreed, which took no time as we were happy to meet the asking price in order to appease them following the messing around in the summer.}

1.) 27 Dec 2017
27 Dec 2017 19:40:50
That makes perfect sense. I know he would not be your choice Ed001 but I have high hopes for him. I think the signing is a game changer.

{Ed001's Note - I hope so mate.}

2.) 27 Dec 2017
27 Dec 2017 19:56:46
Spot on, Ed. The ball was always in the Saints court cos for Klopp, it was VVD or bust so all the Saints had to do was give us the signal to come to the table and if we were going to pay the 75m in the summer, there was nothing stopping us from paying it now esp. since Klopp wanted VVD at ALL costs.

3.) 27 Dec 2017
27 Dec 2017 20:00:23
It was a clean end to a long messy affair, think of it as a axeman having a few goes with a blunt axe and not even making a cut, but on his 5th try he sweeps the head clean off in one go. Does that sound right?

Sorry for the repost, I replied to the wrong thread.

{Ed001's Note - yep, it is what we should have done in the summer imo.}

4.) 27 Dec 2017
27 Dec 2017 20:13:46
Gotcha, cheers for the reply!