There are reports claiming otherwise. I've read that Spurs matched our bid and they got him.
However, it's not really about Llorente himself or Danilo or Ox. It's about the fact that the manager wanted these dudes (or at least that's what we know) and the club wasn't able to get them, while other clubs were. That's the issue.
On a side note, it's remarkable how the all of the Premier League transfer sagas of this summer hit rock bottom and nothing happened. Coutinho and Costa are still Liverpool and Chelsea players , unless something happens today, Van Dijk is still a Southampton player, while Alexis remains at Arsenal. Fantastic.
@Reddish-Blue - fair enough, there are reasons for each refusal, but still Ox chose Liverpool over us, Llorente chose Spurs over us, Lukaku chose United over us. For various reasons, but they still did!
Spot on.
If you think about it, we covered our flaws just as good as United have, yet their image after this window is way better, because they didn't run after 50 targets. They got exactly what they needed and they did that early.
Yeah, good banter, but the jokes are probably being made by those who were launghing at us when we signed Luiz and Alonso on last year's deadline day.
Then the jokes were on them.