Virgil van Dijk revealed that a group of Liverpool supporters played a huge factor in him joining the club and rejecting fellow Premier League heavyweights Manchester City and Chelsea. The Dutch centre-half signed up to Jurgen Klopp’s Anfield revolution in the January transfer window and has been an influential figure in Liverpool’s run to the Champions League final. Van Dijk had plenty of offers on the table from the likes of City and Chelsea, but he recalled an incident with a group of Reds fans at last year’s Champions League final at the Principality Stadium that convinced him Liverpool was the club to join. ‘I never really go to big games to watch as a fan, but I was in Cardiff,’ Van Dijk said. ‘The sponsors (Sony) hooked us up with two fantastic seats and it was two hours from where I used to live so we thought, “Let’s go.”
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