Arsenal have lost out on Van Dijk — despite offering to make him one of their highest-paid players.

Van Dijk has been tempted with more than £150,000 a week at the Emirates but he prefers a move to Stamford Bridge.

He is still recovering from an ankle injury sustained in January and is unlikely to play again this season.

Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a centre back for Premier League club Southampton and for the Netherlands national team.

After beginning his career with Groningen, he moved to Celtic in 2013, where he won the Scottish Premiership and was named in the PFA Scotland Team of the Year in both of his seasons, also winning the Scottish League Cup in the latter. In September 2015, he joined Southampton.

Van Dijk made his international debut for the Netherlands in 2015.

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