What is the mystery? We've done this time and time again - we have a valuation , 15m is a lot of money to vary from it, and west ham have another bid matching what they want.Why bid so high then walk away. Bizarre approach.
Younger and with much higher potentialWe have the best DM in the world.
We have Kovacic who can play as a 6 against at least half of the teams in the league and that will be good enough.
We have Phillips who I hope can raise his level in his second year here. And of course Johnny fucking Stones. We don't need a DM, in my opinion we need a more attacking midfielder, a successor to Kevin who is already 32 years old.
Wirtz?