Never thought he was anything special in all honesty but admittedly i've never intentionally looked out for him during games. Not been reading the thread so i've no idea if he was ever a genuine target or not but the thing with Pep is, he's so brilliant that there's a much wider range of options available to us that he can work his magic on compared to others, so missing out on a potential target isn't a disaster.
One thing is for sure though, for that figure he absolutely has to come in and dominate for them. Big big pressure on his shoulders now. One player can't miraculously change an entire defence but when you pay that kind of money for any player, nevermind a defender he simply has to make an impact immediately. The second they have an amateurish game regardless of whether he's to blame or not he'll be jumped on. Hoping his first is in a few weeks town when we go there.
If they wasn't already on the list (imo they was) you can now add Liverpool to the list of teams who have zero right to moan about money spent by us or any other team, they've yet again just inflated the market and him along with the similarly priced Keita means there's no more excuses for Klopp either, if he wins nothing significant next season he surely has to go. It should be noted too that our record fee is still a comparatively puny £54 million for KDB. United,Chelsea and Liverpool all top that comfortably.
