Liverpool suffers transfer blow as Virgil van Dijk replacement hopes dashed

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"My first days were about analyzing contracts – where are we, where are we strong, where are we weak, where have we got issues? It's no secret at all that we would want to extend Tino's contract, and we would want to extend Sven Botman's contract, too.

"Where's his head at with the squad we've already got? That's what we've spoken about up to now.

But if we want to spend, we can. "But for now, the conversations have been, 'What have we got, what do we think about what we've got, where do we see this' - then let's see how that fits into January and the next part of the conversation."Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.