{"id":72697,"date":"2025-08-11T06:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72697"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:34:24","slug":"why-van-dijk-urges-liverpool-to-sign-another-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/why-van-dijk-urges-liverpool-to-sign-another-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Van Dijk Urges Liverpool to Sign Another Striker\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has called for the club to bolster their attacking options following Sunday\u2019s Community Shield defeat to Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds, tipped as favourites at Wembley, were beaten 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in regulation time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the disappointment, there were positives for Liverpool, including impressive displays from Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz.<\/p>\n<p>However, Liverpool\u2019s attacking threat dipped noticeably after Ekitike was substituted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Van Dijk noted that recent high-profile departures have left gaps in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just lost Darwin (N\u00fa\u00f1ez), he went to Saudi, and we lost Lucho [Luis D\u00edaz] to Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there\u2019s always room for an attacker to strengthen us, so let\u2019s see what the window brings in terms of the balance of the team,\u201d the Dutch defender said.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will now turn their focus to the Premier League opener as the transfer window enters its final weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has called for the club to bolster their attacking options following Sunday\u2019s Community Shield defeat to Crystal Palace. The Reds, tipped as favourites at Wembley, were beaten 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in regulation time. Despite the disappointment, there were positives for Liverpool, including impressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72698,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72697\/revisions\/72698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}