Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk trusts the club to improve their squad further before the transfer window closes in September.

Virgil van Dijk – IMAGO / Jan Huebner

The Reds have only brought in two signings following the arrival of Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai from Brighton and RB Leipzig respectively.

Jurgen Klopp has lost six senior players including Jordan Henderson and Fabinho who moved to Saudi Arabia last month despite being in the German’s plans for the new season.

The Merseysiders have had multiple bids for Romeo Lavia rejected by Southampton who want £50m for the 19-year-old and it is reported that Chelsea are close to reaching an agreement with the Saints for Lavia.

Liverpool have also agreed a club-record £110m bid for Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo but the 21-year-old prefers a move to Chelsea.

The Blues are also trying to hijack the Reds’ move by offering £115m for the Ecuador international who is currently in London after deciding not to play for Brighton again and wants to leave the club this summer.

“The thing is, whether we need to sign a player for a particular position, yes or no, any top club at the moment would love to improve their squad,” Van Dijk told the Liverpool Echo.

“Why wouldn’t we as players want to improve our squad either? We all want quality signings and that’s what we’ve done so far. So we trust the club. I definitely trust the club. They did quite good business over the last years, so why not now as well

“If you follow social media or anything you get dizzy with the names. So I think everyone is saying names just to be the first one to say names nowadays. It’s speculation and they try to guess names to put fuel on the fire and stuff and that’s how the internet works.

“And you know, so what I said already before, we trust the club, we play for the club, and we trust the club to do the right thing for the club, and we’ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks still.

“If you watch social media, if you watch all the other stuff and you see us linked with almost every midfielder in the world or any other player and everyone is a sporting director nowadays on social media then you know you get dizzy, so just wait and see.

“We have professionals working on it. And like I said, I trust the club. And that’s the most important thing.”

The Netherlands international added: “Obviously, I’m very excited for what I’m seeing, the players coming in. They are high-quality, good guys and they can definitely help the club go forward.

“It will definitely take some time, that’s just normal, and hopefully it will happen as soon as possible. But with the games, they will experience the difficult moments in games, the good moments in games, you know.

“They will get better and we all understand each other and every day much better than we do before, so yeah, it’s looking exciting in my opinion.”

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