Virgil van Dijk: Liverpool captain indicates ̵...

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has indicated there was “progress” in talks over a long-awaited new deal to maintain him at Anfield.

The 33-year-old, like team-mates Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold, is out of contract this summer time, however has revealed his future might be near being resolved.

Requested after Sunday’s 3-2 Premier League defeat at Fulham if there had been any progress within the discussions, Van Dijk informed reporters: “There’s progress, yeah.”

Pushed on what that meant, the Netherlands worldwide added: “Hear, these are inner discussions and we’ll see.

“I really like the membership, I really like the followers and so they have been there for us once more [at Fulham]. We needed to reward them, however I ask them to be there once more on Sunday and make the stadium a tremendous venue like at all times for us.”

The runaway leaders face West Ham at Anfield on Sunday sitting 11 factors away from second-placed Arsenal and figuring out a second title in six seasons might be simply weeks away.

Nonetheless, the futures of influential trio Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold have grow to be main speaking factors in current weeks, with hypothesis that home-grown expertise Alexander-Arnold might depart for Actual Madrid having sparked an indignant response from sections of the membership’s help.

Van Dijk’s feedback are prone to be higher acquired, though he insists he’s concentrating solely on the duty of profitable the league.

He stated: “That is positively the mentality in our group, that the job isn’t finished and now we simply must recuperate from this bodily and mentally and put our minds on West Ham at residence.”