A) We bid £55m then about £65m by all accounts, and would have been prepared to go another £10m-ish and maybe work the loan of Origi there too (£6m value). That may have been enough to get him (£81m), it may not, we'll never know as we didn't bid that last amount in the end. The price banded about by Monaco though, who incidentally got the fees they were looking for on every other player to leave this summer, was £92M/€100M and wouldn't you know that's the fee that they and Arsenal agreed tonight, but the player didn't want that move.
B) Why is it ridiculous when club sources/close journos who were right about Salah, Ox and Robertson said we weren't, and we had previously issued an apology regarding an approach earlier in the summer? We probably were waiting on a green light, but again it's no good saying we'd have bid £70M if we never put the bloody bid in! And does that stop us targeting other players? Does that mean the most pressing concern in our squad is not defence? As it has been for a while now.
£34m Net spend!
Christ!