Teammate says reported Rangers target is just like Virgil van Dijk
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Rangers target Joseph Okumu is too good for Sweden’s top flight and shares similarities with Liverpool talisman Virgil van Dijk, Elfsborg teammate Johan Larsson has told Fotboll Skanalen.
Eight years after a fresh-faced Van Dijk swapped Groningen for Celtic in what now looks the bargain of the century at £2.6 million, could Old Firm rivals Rangers bring a top-class defensive talent of their own to the Scottish Premiership?
Last week, Aftonbladet reported Steven Gerrard’s title-winning side had identified Kenya international Okumu as a potential replacement for Filip Helander, the battle-hardened Swede who has admirers at Aston Villa and Leicester City.