Last season wasn't due to fitness though was it? Matip was rightly our first choice partner for Van Dijk for most of the season.
In fact, transfermarket suggests he wasn't injured at all last season, which doesn't sound right either but that might be my memory.
Yeah he was fit all last season, was just preferred in the cups to the league (played about 2,500 minutes across all competitions, and only missed 2 match day squads out of 63 games available). Suppose the question is whether he’d have stayed fit had we played him a lot more, but we don’t know that. The slight worry is he had a whole raft of injuries before he came here and last season was actually a bit of an anomaly in terms of him picking up no real injuries…
Let’s hope the medical and conditioning departments are still top of the list for a shake down in the summer as when fit he’s comfortably one of the best in the league and he transforms our team.