Liverpool superstar to sign contract extension - 'I'm hearing it will happen'

Liverpool could line up with Virgil van Dijk and Marc Guehi alongside each other in the future.

Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, former Tottenham goalkeeper Paul Robinson believes that playing them together would be a “very good option.”

Football Insider revealed that Liverpool have “concrete interest” in the 24-year-old centre-back, who has told friends he’d prefer to join a bigger club than Newcastle.

Arne Slot sees the England international as someone who could succeed Van Dijk, but the Premier League giants are still looking to extend his deal.

The Netherlands international is out of contract at Anfield at the end of this season, and Football Insider revealed he will have the final say about his future.

Liverpool will look to play Marc Guehi and Virgil van Dijk together

Even though Liverpool would like Guehi to one day replace Van Dijk in the team, there is a chance he gets to learn from the more experienced defender first.

“You put him alongside Virgil van Dijk, that looks a great partnership doesn't it,” Robinson said to Football Insider.

“You’re never too old to learn, you never stop learning.

“So to have to play alongside somebody like van Dijk, to pick up his habits, to learn his communication, to learn the way that his positional sense is, different things.

“Yeah, as a pairing, if Van Dijk, I can't see a reason why Liverpool wouldn't extend Van Dijk for another year if he wanted it. From what I hear, that will happen.

“So to have them as a pair next season would be a very good option for me.”

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