Well, I don't share your assumption about the £70 mill.figure, not with the market having gone haywire as it has, and I reckon Southampton also didn't, which is why they went apesh!t when (and only when) van Dijk spoiled their party by insisting he would join us and only us. Their utterly dishonest posturing regarding our conduct was really a last despairing attempt on their part to cut us out of the picture and persuade the other clubs to try again with van Dijk. By the time deadline day arrived they'd painted themselves into a corner about not selling to us and therefore felt that they couldn't step back from that without losing all credibility. The stupid, greedy idiots have cut their nose off to spite their face in a spectacular way, and this now ought to be reflected in the price we pay when we finally buy the player next year.