"We Have More Than Enough" - Arne Slot Cools Transfer Talk After Virgil van Dijk Plea

"We Have More Than Enough" - Arne Slot Cools Transfer Talk After Virgil van Dijk Plea

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has cooled transfer speculation following Virgil van Dijk’s recent call for the club to sign another forward.

Liverpool captain Van Dijk urged the club to sign a new striker after their penalty defeat to Crystal Palace in the Community Shield on Sunday (August 10).

The Premier League champions have sold Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz to Al-Hilal and Bayern Munich, respectively, earning a reported combined fee of 3106 million.

Slot’s side have been heavily linked with a move for Alexander Isak and even had a British record bid of 3120 million turned down by Newcastle.

Speaking to the press after the game with Palace, the Dutchman appeared to disagree with his countryman’s assessment of their attacking options.

"I think we have more than enough options to be good enough to win again," Slot told talkSPORT.

"This is where I focus on myself. With the players we have, we should be able to win to score. That's actually what we did as well. We scored twice (against Palace) and last season we only scored one against them, away and at home.

"We could only score one against them. So my last concern at the moment is our offensive quality.

"It's more, it's not a concern, but if I look at the amount of goals we've conceded in pre-season. That's not of our standard."