If Spurs have set a price tag for the £100,000-a-week (SalarySport) Denmark international midfielder, then it is clear that the North London club are willing to do a deal.

What United need to do in January is pay the fee needed.

While both United and Tottenham are aiming to finish in the top four of the Premier League table this season, the two clubs have already done business in recent months.

Sergio Reguilon joined the Red Devils on loan from Spurs in the summer transfer window.

So, I do not think that Spurs will stop Hojbjerg, 28, from making the switch to United.

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Postecoglou stops Richarlison Klopp moment and names Tottenham coach who’s made big Porro impact

Those days of mundane, dull football which had the Spurs supporters snoozing in the stands seem a lifetime ago.

Make no mistake – unlike the VAR room – Ange Postecoglou‘s side rode their luck and then some but they came away with their first victory against Liverpool in six years and ended the visitors’ unbeaten run in all competitions which stretched back to April 1.

This was actually one of Spurs’ least impressive performances of the Premier League season so far against a resolute Liverpool side that contained just nine players in the end and 10 for much of the game, but history will show a result that means far more and represents another building block in the Australian’s transformation of the club.

Those red cards meant Spurs had 65% of the possession and made 602 passes to Liverpool’s 281 and 24 shots on goal to the visitors’ 12, forcing Alisson into stunning saves from James Maddison and Son Heung-min.

Yet they were Joel Matip’s outstretched shin away from being held at home by a team with two less players on the pitch than them.

Ultimately though, while Spurs will look to improve on what they struggled with, they will not care one bit about how the game played out when it had another blockbuster ending for the 62,001 supporters in attendance.

Tottenham have now beaten Manchester United and Liverpool at home this season and drawn away at Arsenal under Postecoglou. So far they have found a way in every test presented to them in the Premier League.

Once again on Saturday they dug deep and pushed open the door and while on this occasion VAR was on their side, they will know that against Liverpool in particular it has rarely been in the past. Sissoko’s armpit and Skipp’s head are testament to that.

On this occasion, VAR well and truly went to sleep. Perhaps they were watching clips of Spurs last season in the room at Stockley Park.

They failed to react to the fact that Cristian Romero was playing Luis Diaz well onside nine minutes after Curtis Jones was sent off and the official’s flag was raised in error after the Liverpool man had fired a clinical shot inside the left-hand post.

It took an hour for the apology to come from the PGMOL and even then it had its own error within it. See if you can spot it without using a pitch-side monitor.

“PGMOL acknowledge a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool,” read their statement.

“The goal by Luiz Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.

“PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.”

Jurgen Klopp was suitably disgruntled with everything officials-related after the game.

“I knew it [was onside] at half-time. With normal pictures it was easy to see. Whoever made the decision [to say it is offside] didn’t do it on purpose, it didn’t take extremely long to come to the conclusion which was strange but somebody else has to clarify that. I have nothing else to say about it,” he said before saying more about it.

“How can the referee explain the situation? The linesman thought it was worth watching again and that’s why he raised the flag. In the good old times the linesman should have seen that wasn’t offside as well as you have these situations frequently. When you see it back it’s pretty clear.

“Nobody did it on purpose – whatever I say here it creates headlines but doesn’t help the situation at all. I’m not in that mood.”

When he was told about the PGMOL’s statement, he added: “Does that help now? We had that situation in the Man United game [on the opening weekend], did Wolves get points for it? No. We will not get points for it. It doesn’t help.

“Nobody expects 100% correct decisions on the field, but we all thought when VAR comes in that it might make things easier.

“I don’t know why people in VAR are that much under pressure, today the decision was made really quick for the goal. It changed the momentum of the game. We scored the goal, it was outstandingly well played. It showed how we can hurt them and beat them.”

For Postecoglou, he simply reiterated his belief that VAR does not really add anything of benefit to the game.

“You might have to dig up some research on me mate. I think I’m on record as saying that I’ve never really been a fan of it since it came in,” he said. “Not for any other reason than I think that it complicates areas of the game that I thought were pretty clear in the past, but I can see at the same time why it was inevitable that technology would come in.

“We have to deal with it. The biggest problem I think that we have is that we seem to fail to grasp is that no form of technology is going to make the game errorless. We used to understand that errors were part of the game, including officiating errors.

“You’d have to cop it and some people would cop it better than others but that was part of the game. The game is littered with historical refereeing decisions that weren’t right but we all accepted it that it was part of the game because we’re dealing with human beings.”

He added: “I think that people are under the misconception that VAR is going to be errorless. I don’t think there’s any technology, because so much of our game isn’t factual. It’s down to interpretation and they’re still human beings. They’re going to make mistakes the same way managers make mistakes, the same way players make mistakes.

“When you put such a high bar on something it invariably is going to fail, so if people are thinking that VAR is going to be something that at some point that is perfect, that’s never going to happen.”

That goal if allowed could have changed the direction of the game or Spurs could have simply reacted even more strongly against 10 man and pushed forward in a refocused way.

Tottenham could equally point to the Destiny Udogie yellow card and free-kick that never should have been, which resulted in the visitors being up the pitch, including defender Virgil van Dijk to eventually head the ball across to Cody Gakpo to fire in Liverpool’s leveller before half-time.

What goes around mostly comes around in football and Spurs finally got a bit of luck on their side against Liverpool.