How Southampton continue to be best shopping bet for the Liverpool

Dejan Lovren, Adam Lallana and Nathaniel Clyne are some of the players that Liverpool signed from Southampton [Photo: Courtesy]

After Virgil van Dijk became the latest player to take the much-travelled route from the south coast to Merseyside, you could be forgiven for thinking Southampton are a feeder club for Liverpool.

Liverpool made a statement before the January transfer window even opened, returning to their favourite shopping centre – St Mary’s – to prise Dutch centre-back Van Dijk to Anfield for a reported fee of £75million (Sh10.4b) in a club-record move.