Football transfer rumours: Virgil van Dijk or Iñigo Martínez to Manchester City?
Today’s fluff is high up where the stallion meets the sun
One day he will actually move clubs, and the name of Virgil van Dijk will not be repeated in the Mill for months or even years. Until that time, however, he is hanging around like the proverbial punchy pong, appearing once more on Friday morning on the back page of a national newspaper. This time it’s the Times, which reports that Pep Guardiola is currently stroking his chin and pondering which central defender Manchester City will launch an audacious megabucks bid for come January – Van Dijk or Real Sociedad’s Iñigo Martínez. The Spaniard, whose contract contains a release clause set at €32m (or about £28m), would be something of a comparative bargain, with Southampton continuing to value their Dutch defender at £70m (and with the two players being born within two months of each other in 1991 there’s little difference in age).
But there might be a familiar-sounding scrap for his services, with Arsenal “weighing up” a move, says the Times, while Liverpool are wondering whether to also try to sign him, or to move instead for the player whose surname is closer than any other’s to being an anagram of his in the shape of Stefan de Vrij, though they might have a fight on their hands there as well, with Corriere dello Sport saying Internazionale also want the Lazio man.
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