I hope those posting that they are annoyed at this are being sarcastic? But unfortunately I don’t think you are!
If we actually wanted him, he would be a Utd player. That’s not because Utd are bigger than Liverpool blah blah, but because he’s clearly been available for a long time. A bit like when Mahrez goes to City, if we wanted him, we would have got a deal done.
Transfers don’t just happen overnight, they will have been working on this for months, which is the same for us. They didn’t play Saturday night, wake up Sunday bud for a player and get it wrapped up the next day!
Utd are linked with dozens and dozens of players each year, so it’s likely whoever we buy, we will have been linked to for many months - but remember the 20-30 players we were also linked to who we were not interested in. Same thing every summer.