Twitter goes wild as Virgil van Dijk joins Liverpool

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Liverpool's new signing Virgil van Dijk

The winter transfer window is almost here and clubs are looking to strengthen their squad in order to challenge for top honours.

The Reds wasted no time in securing their first winter signing after Virgil van Dijk was officially announced as a Liverpool player. He has now become the most expensive defender after both the clubs, Liverpool and Southampton, agreed on a deal of £75 million. The Netherlands international will join Liverpool on the 1st of January and will wear the No. 4 jersey.

As always, Twitterati couldn't contain their excitement. We bring you some of the best tweets.

Liverpool fans would definitely hope this is not true

That's another way of looking at it

The transfer fee makes much more sense now

Let's just hope this is false

From one home to another

Challenge accepted

Stats of the £75 million defender

Liverpool and Southampton...a better love story than Twilight

It's never too late

Mourinho looking to spend more money after saying that £300 million was not enough

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Edited by Arvind Sriram