Vincent Kompany names best defender in Premier League history

Manchester City legend Vincent Kompany has named the best defender in the Premier League history of the Premier League, Goal reported.

"I would bring it back to Virgil van Dijk," Kompany told SPORF.

"It's a weird one because he hasn't been on the scene for as long as these names we mentioned – John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, these guys were there for a long, long time.

"But the signs he showed in his last few years, just makes it so obvious that if he would've been at the top, top level before that he would've been already further as well.

"From what I've seen in terms of having an impact on a team and a defender is never about himself, it's about his communication with other guys and how you make your team more solid.

"The Liverpool before Van Dijk and the one after him, it's a completely different setup and I'll give him that one because of that."

Virgil van Dijk moved to Liverpool from Southampton in 2018.

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