Conte says he wanted to sign Van Dijk for Chelsea: 'We could've become dominant'

Former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says that he wanted to buy Virgil van Dijk in the summer of 2017 but the transfer didn't happen.

The centre-back, who played for Southampton at that time, ended up joining Liverpool in the 2017/2018 winter transfer window. The rest, as they say, is history, but it's weird to think that the current Reds' captain could have worn Chelsea's colours.

“My history says that I always arrived at my clubs in a difficult situation with problems. I always build,” Conte said in an interview with the Telegraph.

“After my first season at Chelsea, when we won the title, we could have become dominant in England. We spoke with Lukaku and Van Dijk, and with those two important players we could have changed the situation.”