Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will join Liverpool on a five-year deal worth £120k-per-week, effectively doubling his wages from Arsenal.

The player is set to undergo a medical before jetting off to Malta with the England team to run down some blind alleys there:

Contrary to what was widely reported (and Ornstein is repeating again with the clever use of the words ‘up to’), Arsenal did not seemingly offer the Ox a flat £180kpw to stay at the club and this, it seems, is what his agent wanted.

The Ox, who has missed almost as many days through injury as Jack Wilshere over the last six years, will move north where he will hope to re-start a career that has stalled badly since his move from Southampton.

As for Liverpool, they continue to pay out for Southampton-connected players like they are some sort of addict that just can’t resist.

£40m for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with nine months left on his contract. Amazing.

Pity we couldn’t get them to throw in an extra £1