Virgil van Dijk has warned the absence of Champions League football will have a big ‘impact’ on Liverpool this summer.Liverpool lost at Wolves on Tuesday night to continue a challenging campaign for the Premier League champions. The late defeat at Molineux leaves the Reds fifth in the table, in a competitive battle for Champions League football.Liverpool are at risk of missing out on Europe’s elite, an absence that would be estimated to cost the club around £120m in revenue. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});After a record-breaking spend last summer, Van Dijk has admitted the loss of Champions League revenue would ‘100%’ impact the club’s plans in the summer transfer window.Speaking after the loss at Wolves, the Liverpool captain admitted ‘the stakes are very high’ across the run-in.“It will have impact on the summer (transfer) window, 100%,” he said.“The stakes are very high. Listen, if you play for Liverpool, it’s always been like that. We need to get into the Champions League.“The whole season is not easy. It was always going to be an ups-and-downs season for multiple reasons. The league is strong and the league is demanding every three or four days and it’s a big battle. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});“We need everyone at their best and we need a big squad in this sense. We need results and in the last couple of weeks we had the results and today we didn’t. It says that we still have work to do and that’s pretty obvious and that’s what we should focus on.”Read – Slot admits he expected more from Liverpool this seasonSee more – BBC ranks greatest 21st century centre-forwards – badlyFollow the Football Faithful on Social Media:Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTubeThe post Van Dijk warns Liverpool ‘need’ Champions League football first appeared on The Football Faithful.