'Van Dijk is an absolute shadow of the player he was': Former Palace defender on Liverpool centre-back

Former Crystal Palace player and TalkSPORT pundit Jason Cundy has labelled Van Dijk as a shadow of his former self.

"There’s no doubting how good Van Dijk was, but right now let’s call it as it is, Van Dijk is an absolute shadow of the player he was.

“He’s getting overlooked because he’s happy to blame Trent [Alexander-Arnold] and Gomez and Tsimikas comes in. The mainstay right now is Van Dijk and he’s nowhere near it.

"What about the challenge on Mitrovic for the penalty against Fulham? Mitrovic turns him, that’s not Van Dijk! He squares him up, turns him, penalty. Against Napoli, he lunges in and makes a challenge that he doesn’t have to make.”

A lot of ex-players have slammed Van Dijk over the past few weeks, with Cundy being another name to add to the list and it really is all the same stuff. We'll just have to wait for Liverpool to get back to winning ways for the players to silence the critics once again.