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Chris Sutton Claims Rival PL Sides 'Will Be Kicking Themselves' for Failing to Sign Virgil van Dijk

BT Sport pundit Chris Sutton says that Liverpool's Premier League rivals "will be kicking themselves" for overlooking Virgil van Dijk during his time at Celtic.

Van Dijk turned in a commanding man of the match display as Liverpool won 2-0 at Crystal Palace on Monday night to continue their winning start to the season.

Sutton claims that bigger Premier League clubs should have taken an interest in Van Dijk when he was playing in the Scottish Premiership, but overlooked him because of how Scottish football is perceived south of the border.

"The sides who looked at Van Dijk and rejected him were not judging the player but the league he played in," claimed Sutton in his Daily Mail column.