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Wondering if you lot have stumbled over this article makes some interesting reading!

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/f...jk-celtic/

STUART MILLAR urged West Brom to buy Virgil van Dijk from Celtic — then quit as scout when his plea was ignored.

But the Scot is having the last laugh now as the Dutch defender, who Liverpool paid £75million this year, goes from strength to strength.

The article is funny because the scout is talking like he's some sort of genius, uncovering a gem.

Yet everyone knew about Van Dijk at Celtic, everyone was looking at him

Southampton paid £15m for him, which was a lot of money at the time considering he had only been playing in the SPL and was unproven. We wouldn't pay that sort of money for anyone back then. That year we paid £8m for James Chester, which was a massively outlay for us at the time, so there's no way we could've afforded Van Dijk.

Obviously in hindsight, he would've been worth the money. But Jeremy Peace always operated a tight ship and never sanctioned big money gambles. I'm sure this scout wasn't the first to recommend a player out of our price range and get annoyed when we wouldn't shell out the cash.

Southampton had just sold Lovren for over £30m, so they had the money to gamble.