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28th December 2017
07:26pm GMT

"I think Sol Bamba is slightly better than Van Dijk defensive-wise. I think Van Dijk has got more confidence on the ball and looks easier on the eye, but I don't think he is better defensively."
So according to Warnock, Liverpool have signed themselves a fantastic ball-playing defender but, if reliability at the back was what Klopp was after, he should have brought in a Bamba.
Warnock also revealed that he tried to sign van Dijk when he was in charge of Crystal Palace and could have gotten him at a bargain, only to be turned off the pursuit by a scout.
"At centre-half I was looking at Van Dijk. I suggested we buy him for £6 million at the time and the chief scout said he wasn't quick enough and didn't see him stepping up [from the Scottish league] to the level we were looking for," Warnock added.
"I hope he's watching this morning that chief scout, £75 millio!
"You've got to be lucky with transfers when you're a manager, you've got to hope that when you want a player you can actually go and get him rather than go through all the rigmarole but it made me smile in the morning when I saw that."Explore more on these topics: