{"id":531576,"date":"2023-10-17T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=531576"},"modified":"2023-10-17T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:30:21","slug":"wind-your-neck-in-liverpool-fans-react-to-alan-shearers-comments-about-virgil-van-dijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wind-your-neck-in-liverpool-fans-react-to-alan-shearers-comments-about-virgil-van-dijk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wind your neck in&#8217; &#8211; Liverpool fans react to Alan Shearer&#8217;s comments about Virgil Van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fans have been reacting with anger after Alan Shearer hit out at Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk over claims that stars are being asked to play too many games.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Dijk insisted that players in England have seen an unacceptable increase in workload in recent years and called on his fellow players to speak out about the threats to their health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst the Liverpool defender acknowledged that players are paid a lot, he insisted that money should not come at the cost of players&#8217; health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But former Newcastle man Alan Shearer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/virgil-van-dijk-shearer-rant-31198260\">said<\/a> Van Dijk&#8217;s claims were &#8220;nonsense&#8221; particularly given all of the facilities players have access to nowadays that they did not before as well as the amount of money players are paid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shearer also noted the size of squad and well as the number of substitutes as part of the reason players like Van Dijk should not be complaining about fixture schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans have been reacting to Shearer&#8217;s comments and there has been mixed opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Liverpool supporter was happy to ignore the Geordie&#8217;s comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hmm, shall we listen to qualified sports scientists, or bald geordies? \ud83e\udd14<\/p>&mdash; SA (@LFC_SA_1892) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC_SA_1892\/status\/1713852997246054730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another claimed Shearer wouldn&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to play in the league alongside European competitions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Says the man who hardly ever played in Europe for any of his teams.<\/p>&mdash; MR MATT (@MRM47TH3W) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRM47TH3W\/status\/1713896535220510853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another also claimed Sherarer was in no place to criticise Van Dijk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shearer couldn&#39;t even play 50 games a season, let alone how many VVD has played. He should stay out of this conversation or he may get injured for talking too much.<\/p>&mdash; Domjones2000 (@Domjones2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Domjones2016\/status\/1713969240468783358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another fan claimed Shearer only wants to get involved when he can criticise the Reds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He needs to wind his neck in.  Only comes a live when he wants to slag off anything Liverpool.<\/p>&mdash; DB (@parkyp123) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parkyp123\/status\/1714152276929937567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But some supporters agreed with Shearer and couldn&#8217;t believe Van Dijk&#8217;s out of touch comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Van dink is a young man and fit , he gets paid an obscene amount of money for kicking a ball around, try working 12 hours a day 6 days a week on minimum wage like hundreds of thousands of people, then he can moan \ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21\ud83d\ude21<\/p>&mdash; Racing is life , before or after is just waiting (@JLivingstonSe1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JLivingstonSe1\/status\/1714149452888375344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another suggested that Shearer was totally justified in his comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was not brutal. Just a no that&#39;s all.Alan is from a different generation when you had to slug it out day in day out, a lot of local players who didn&#39;t have to travel round the clock to get to a game.  There was money but not like now. And he did say UEFA\/FIFA were over the top<\/p>&mdash; Fran\u00e7oise (@Fran75GB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fran75GB\/status\/1714153145893326909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/revealed-liverpool-just-weeks-away-from-landing-14m-payout\/\">Liverpool just weeks away from landing \u00a314m payout<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans have been reacting with anger after Alan Shearer hit out at Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk over claims that stars are being asked to play too many games. 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