Virgil van Dijk makes feelings clear on Mohamed Salah's Liverpool future after star axed

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"But we need him and he will still be important like he has been. He's disappointed but that's absolutely normal as if you're not disappointed when you're not playing two games in a row then there is an issue as well.

It's not like you have unlimited credit, everyone has to perform. But like I said with Flo (Florian Wirtz), we are all trying to find consistency and he needs us to be in our best shape and we need him and that's what we are all trying to find."Regarding the match outcome, Van Dijk commented: "That's absolutely normal unfortunately [that it is not clicking].

It takes a bit of time, the pressing, the moments when we come to the final third we want to make that work as soon as possible, it's what we all want on the pitch and what we train but it doesn't always work like that.Virgil van Dijk says Mohamed Salah is disappointed not to be starting (Image: Getty Images)"When we have training we train on all those things. We didn't lose but we played a different opponent so you can't compare both games."In terms of build on things you mean winning but you play two different teams; West Ham there was a lot of space between the lines, they play a different system; Sunderland were pressing high at the start and were then in a low block and then it's still difficult to break down."You want to so you feel you are building on the [West Ham] performance but we got a point and that's the situation we are in right now.