OK we don't like Micky Quinn in Southampton due to his past as a Pompey player, but his rant against his home town club is ill conceived due to the part Quinn himself played in the sorry saga.
Liverpool born ex Pompey striker and Talksport presenter Micky Quinn has said to this mornings listeners that the Reds' about turn reduced him from walking with his "head in the clouds" to feeling "like a pigeon who'd been shot from the sky."
Quinn said:
"I've gone from head in the clouds on Tuesday when we did the show, going home, chest sticking out, ringing my dad (saying) 'Oh what a great signing and looking forward to the fixtures out next week, (with) van Dijk at the back, a leader, leading for Liverpool, he's going to be a great player, great to see him in the Champions League - and so on and so on."
"I rang everyone."
"And then, I was just like a pigeon who'd been shot from the sky. I just flopped onto the ground."
"The deal's off, the embarrassing apology from Liverpool Football Club. I am lower than a snake's belly. I came into the Talksport office with a top hat on and I got under the door, that's how low I am this morning."
"For Liverpool fans it's so frustrating. It really is, thinking that you've got a top class player when the defence is one of the weak links at Liverpool and he's going to drive Liverpool on next season, to nothing."
"And then an embarrassing apology which somebody's got to answer for because something went drastically wrong with this transfer. And someone's made a huge mistake so heads will roll."
Quinn is right something did go embarrassingly wrong, Liverpool's PR people launched a campaign in which they briefed people just like Quinn in the media that Virgil Van Dijk wanted to go to Liverpool and it was a done deal etc etc in some bungled attempt to put pressure on Saints and probably Man City etc not to mention the player himself to go to Anfield.
Quinn and his fellow media colleagues then went out and told everyone just this leading to the situation where Liverpool were bang to rights because they had actually told the World themselves that they had tapped up Virgil Van Dijk.
So when Quinn gets angry at Liverpool perhaps he would be better served taking a look at his own part in the proceedings, being an ex professional footballer himself and in close contact with those still in the game, surely he knows the rules about transfers, surely when he was told this he knew it was confidential information or did Liverpool mislead him.
Either way if Virgil Van Dijk does not go to Liverpool and the Anfield club have truly ended their interest rather than their half hearted apology being yet more psychological warfare, then Quinn is part of their problem and Liverpool's fans should be ranting at him and others close to Liverpool Football Club for shouting their mouths off when it was clear that there had been no contact between the two clubs.
I apologise to Mick Quinn if Liverpool had told him that an offer had been made and accepted, but surely he should have done a little due dilligence before telling his listeners that the deal was going to happen.