Respectfully where do these Twitter sources pull this stuff from? I think I know, but it’s a bit rude.
The problem is it feeds into fans’ excitement (which is why they do it) but ultimately leads to upset when it’s all nonsense.
Of course the top clubs in the country are “monitoring” a World Cup winning centre midfielder of a “smaller” team. You don’t need to be ITK to state the obvious. You could substitute the name of three or four of our players into this, and hey presto, transfer rumour clickbait.
As for the fee, this is the kind of thing which breeds misinformation, leading to comments such as the one above. Now, some fans will have this arbitrary made-up fee of £61m stuck in their heads.
£90m for Ferguson and Mac Allister would of course be fantastic for you, but in reality it would be closer to to £90m each.