{"id":14169,"date":"2024-07-23T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=459012"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:29:13","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-wants-to-stay-at-liverpool-rejects-saudi-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/virgil-van-dijk-wants-to-stay-at-liverpool-rejects-saudi-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk wants to stay at Liverpool, rejects Saudi interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil van Dijk has told Liverpool he wants to sign a new contract, despite having only a year left on his current deal at Anfield. The Dutch defender has attracted interest from the Saudi Pro League, but he remains committed to staying with the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool fans had been worried about Van Dijk\u2019s future after he made some comments following the Netherlands\u2019 semi-final defeat to England at Euro 2024. However, he has reassured the club\u2019s management that he wishes to remain and sign a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>New Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has also expressed his desire to keep the 33-year-old defender for the upcoming season. Van Dijk has turned down any chance to speak with potential new clubs, showing his dedication to Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil van Dijk has told Liverpool he wants to sign a new contract, despite having only a year left on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":36023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1286],"class_list":["post-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-virgil-van-dijk"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}