Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool must do ‘a lot of work’ over summer after failed season

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Feyenoord’s assistant coach, Etiënne Reijnen, has been linked with a move to Merseyside and a reunion with Slot this summer.Van Dijk said: “We have the quality to hurt any opponent but sometimes it also goes with a combination of the mindset … We have three games left and the realisation has to come from ourselves, as a group and as players, to make sure that we are in the Champions League because of the impact of it for the financial side for the club. I think it’s unacceptable that we have lost too many times as defending champions of the Premier League and we shouldn’t accept it whatsoever.

But I think if you have one day off, and you don’t have many days off, they can decide what they want to do with their families. This week we have an early kick-off on Saturday.

It’s not that we have a holiday whatsoever.“I wish we had a couple more days off at times because I think it works both ways. I can understand if people think we are not training and, when results are not there, it could be a reason for why we are not getting results.”