So it seems the secret dealings of 'Agent' Henderson and 'Agent' Alexander-Arnold were in vain, with Liverpool's mission to sign Jude Bellingham no longer currently on the cards.
The spiralling costs involved in luring Bellingham to Anfield, coupled with a very real fear he wasn’t ready to leave Dortmund are among the reasons for Liverpool’s decision to walk away.
Throw in the sheer scale of the rebuild needed by Jurgen Klopp and the eye-watering outlay on just one player is arguably hard to justify.
