Jaap Stam has praised Virgil van Dijk for the way the Liverpool star has progressed throughout his career. Stam had a stellar career, playing for a host of European giants including Manchester United and AC Milan.
Van Dijk didn’t always find life easy at the start of his career in his homeland of the Netherlands, though impressed at times with Groningen.
It earned the Dutch star a move to Celtic before he headed to the Premier League with Southampton in 2015. And after two-and-a-half seasons on the south coast, Liverpool paid £75m for the 28-year-old, and Van Dijk has been a key part to the recent success at Anfield.
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