Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea transfer news: Southampton to reject all offers for Virgil van Dijk this January
Saints executive director Les Reed says no bids for centre-back will be considered until the season has finished
VIRGIL VAN DIJK will not be leaving Southampton this January, the club have confirmed.
Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Everton have all been linked to the Dutch defender but the Saints will not let him move until at least the end of the season.
Executive director Les Reed told the : "Virgil is not for the sale.
"We haven't had any bids and if we got any bids we wouldn't consider them because it just doesn't make sense to think we would release Virgil van Dijk in mid-season when we have still got, we believe, all to play for.
"There haven't been any enquiries but certainly the status of him at the moment is that he is simply not for sale."
Reed added that Southampton will not rule out expanding their squad this January but are looking for cut price deals.
He said: "We know what we would like to do to improve this squad, both for now and from now on for the next few years, but it's always a question of availability, and availability at the right price, and whether the player would come to the club.
"If we do anything we will do our business quietly, under the radar, as we did with Charlie [Austin] last year. That's our method, that's our model, it hasn't changed and it's not going to change."
If Man City are unable to sign Van Dijk, Pep Guardiola may turn his attention to Bayern Munich's Holger Badstuber, who he is interested in signing on a six-month loan.
One Southampton defender who could make a January move away from St Mary's is Jose Fonte, who has handed in a transfer request to try to force a move to Manchester United.
