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He told the Weekend Sports Breakfast: "Just on what Henry said there about Micky van de Ven, he doesn't blame him. You should blame him because you can't get away with that.4Van de Ven struggled to get to grips with Arsenal last time outCredit: Getty"You sign a contract at Tottenham football club and if you're – he didn't say downing tools – but he's got to think, for me, he's very fortunate to play for Tottenham."Micky van de Ven, right, you've had a big move.
You've done brilliantly well there, and what I'm seeing now is a player, he reminds me of when Virgil van Dijk was at the end of his time at Southampton, just before he played for Liverpool."He went in the January window and the period before, everyone knew Van Dijk was a tremendous player."Everyone knew that he was cruising, he could play comfortably and be okay. He never said a single bad word to anyone, but he wanted to go, and it wasn’t effective for us to keep the player.“We kept him until January.
He’d had a bad injury, I think he’d been out for six to nine months, and we felt that he owed us, which is embarrassing now, I think back to it.“There was also some contact from Liverpool we didn’t love. At that time, probably a little more for the morals, he had already met Klopp before he told us.“But in the end, he did a very good job for us, and we sold him for a good price.”
