No I'm quite sure we never looked at this guy at any point last season. Champions League semi-finalist? Nah. Played directly against us? Forgotten already.
"Ah, that would be a tempting invitation. To start with, to make a wise choice, I'll talk about it with my agent, and with Monaco too. It's a world class team, and I'll make sure to think about it."
Listening to him saying that, imo he's as good as gone.
It kinda sux that we always seem to struggle to get our targets (I'm not implying that Fabinho is/was a primary target). It'd be nice if we had 5 players in mind, and then went out and got all 5 of them, and I'm talking about our Plan A's here, not B's, C's, D's and Z's a la Martinez, Almiron, Motta, Hernanes and Rincon.