Virgil van Dijk will not be allowed to leave Southampton this summer, according to Ralph Krueger the club’s chairman.

Van Dijk remains a target for Chelsea and Liverpool and the Dutch centre back handed in a transfer request last week in a bid to engineer a move before the window shuts at the end of the month.

Southampton had already asked the Premier League to investigate an alleged illegal approach from Liverpool in June, leading Jürgen Klopp’s team to drop their interest in the 26-year-old and issue an embarrassing apology.

“Virgil is not for sale in this window and it’s not personal,” Krueger said.

“It’s not about him, it’s about an overall much bigger picture, a change of course for Southampton.”