Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that he believes it was "inevitable" that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was "tapped up" ahead of his deadline day move to Liverpool. The 24-year-old's £40m switch to Anfield was the biggest Premier League deal of deadline day as Oxlade-Chamberlain swapped Arsenal for Liverpool less than a week after being part of the Gunners team that was thrashed 4-0 by Jurgen Klopp's men. Wenger inferred that tapping up may have taken place on the day of the match, suggesting that it is widespread in football despite Liverpool being forced to apologise for an alleged illegal approach towards Southampton's Virgil van Dijk earlier in the transfer...
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