Consider we must have given Lallana a fat signing on fee and ~60k a week though, plus the new deal for Dunk which must put him on the same amount. Veltman must be on ~40k as well.
Quote from their sporting director earlier this week:
"We had a lot of hot rumours at the beginning, (with Leeds it was) even very concrete.
"There were serious conversations and rapprochements but it never presented itself in such a way that it would have been interesting for Nico or for us...