{"id":87549,"date":"2022-07-25T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-is-in-my-opinion-if-not-the-best-english-centre-back-around-virgil-van-dijk-on-joe-gomez"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:04:16","slug":"he-is-in-my-opinion-if-not-the-best-english-centre-back-around-virgil-van-dijk-on-joe-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-is-in-my-opinion-if-not-the-best-english-centre-back-around-virgil-van-dijk-on-joe-gomez","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He is, in my opinion, if not the best English centre-back around&#8217; &#8211; Virgil Van Dijk on Joe Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Gomez recently put pen to paper on a new five-year deal at Liverpool that will see him extend his stay on Merseyside to the summer of 2027, centre-back partner Virgil Van Dijk has spoken about his happiness around the deal.Gomez arrived at Liverpool from Charlton in July 2015 at the age of 18. Still only 25 the Englishman was a pivotal part of Liverpool ending the 30-year wait for a league title featuring 28 times in the Premier League title-winning campaign.The following season Gomez found himself with a cruel patella injury that ruled him out of football for 231 days of football. Since then Gomez has found it hard to hold down a first-team place in Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side, featuring only 21 times in all competitions last season for Liverpool.IMAGO \/ PRiME Media ImagesIn an exclusive interview with the official club website centre-back partner, Virgil Van Dijk has spoken about his delight that the Englishman penned a new deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Gomez recently put pen to paper on a new five-year deal at Liverpool that will see him extend his stay on Merseyside to the summer of 2027, centre-back partner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58,102],"class_list":["post-87549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}