Does Van Dijk injury mean Liverpool spend in January?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Athletic's David Ornstein & Mark Chapman are joined by Liverpool writer James Pearce to asses the fallout from the injury to Virgil van Dijk - could this mean Liverpool spend to replace him January?
David will bring us the main lines from his weekly column including details of a new deal for Southampton striker Danny Ings.
And we break down Saïd Benrahma’s loan move to West Ham with Liam Twomey who will also talk to us about Chelsea’s defensive issues and The Athletic exclusive on Antonio Rudiger.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Ornstein and Chapman podcast on The Athletic. As usual, we bring you exclusive insight and stories from David and our team of writers. Coming up today, David will bring us the main lines from his weekly column, including details of a new deal for Danny Ings at Southampton. |
| 0:23.3 | The Athletics, James Pearce, will join us to discuss the impact of Liverpool's Virgil Van Dykes injury and the reaction from inside the club. |
| 0:30.7 | We'll break down, Syed Ben-Rama's loan move to West Ham with Liam Toomey, who will also talk to us about Chelsea's defensive issues and also the Athletic exclusive on Antonio Rudiger. |
| 0:41.5 | To read all the articles we discuss on today's podcast in full, simply head to www.theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman and sign up for just one pound a month. |
| 0:54.4 | So the top headline on the Athletic yesterday |
| 0:57.2 | and of the weekend in general really was the news |
| 1:00.2 | that Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dyke could be out for the rest of the season |
| 1:04.1 | after sustaining a knee injury that now needs surgery. |
| 1:08.2 | James Pearce has written a piece on the Athletic |
| 1:10.2 | explaining what this |
| 1:11.7 | injury means for the Premier League champions. James joins us now. Before we get on to their future |
| 1:17.7 | without Van Dyke, what's the latest as you understand it? Because all the statements seem very |
| 1:23.1 | reluctant to put a time scale on this. Yeah, well, the club's standpoint certainly is that, you know, |
| 1:29.1 | they won't fully know until after he's had the surgery, |
| 1:32.2 | what the rehab program is going to look like. |
| 1:35.4 | I think they're going to schedule that surgery later on this week. |
| 1:41.4 | I mean, I think at a torn ACL, we know that it could be anything from seven months to nine months. |
| 1:48.5 | And so I think it's Liverpool a keen not to rule him out for the rest of the season and say there's still a chance. |
| 1:54.6 | But I'd be very surprised if we saw Virgil Van Dyke back in a Liverpool shirt before next season. |
| 1:59.9 | What level of bitterness, James, is there at Liverpool over this? |
| 2:02.6 | Because it's not like he did anything wrong to sustain that injury. |
| 2:06.5 | I think there's a huge amount of anger in more ways than one. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.