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'Maybe he was too cheap!' - Klopp full of praise for £75m Liverpool star Van Dijk

Jurgen Klopp says the £75 million ($83.5m) outlay for Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk is starting to look like a bargain.

The Reds continued their unbeaten start to the 2018-19 Premier League campaign with a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace on Monday evening, with Van Dijk the standout performer for the away side.

The Liverpool centre-back again proved his dominance in his aerial battles, shutting out former Reds forward Christian Benteke and his eventual replacement Alexander Sorloth, and proved a starting point for his attacking team-mates.

As such, Van Dijk's importance to the Reds' defensive unit has once again been brought into the spotlight and his manager has suggested that the club had paid too little for the former Southampton and Celtic defender when he arrived in a record-breaking deal in January.