Dear skeptical,We hold the aces. Can either play hardball now for £1.5m+ or keep him till his contract expires and agree a fee then with the highest bidder or tribunal. Hopefully he will have ano excellent season in L1 adding further to his value anyway. This all assumes that the story is true......................Skeptical !!!
how about this for a story I've just made up;
PB; "Ron , we need some strikers, but they all cost money , or want paying"
RM ; You will have to offload someone first, how about that goalkeeper , we might get a fee for him, Wet Spam have been sniffing round, but somehow we've got to get them to 'up the ante'"
PB; " I know I'll get my mate at hull ( I used to manager there you know, got em into the premier league et al, you might have seen me singing, or on the pitch with the players ) Brucie, to put in a tempting offer, so we can get into a bidding war with Wet Spam"
RM; "good idea Phil, the I can get a £1m to dig some footings, Er I mean let you have some funds to get a striker in on loan, or at a push get an old favourite back, Eastwood, Barnard, or maybe even get Corr back, we might be able to afford him!