Yep. Any agent worth his salt will know how important Bentaleb is to our team right now. He'll be pushing for a bumper contract and who can blame him. It's hard to argue he doesn't deserve at least what a Dembele or Paulinho are making. And Levy will know he's worth way too much to walk away.
The only thing that worries me a little bit, is Levy looking at Alli, Winks, Onomah and Veljkovic and asking Nabils agent, which clubs are interested and how much will they pay.
What does it matter how you give the player the money? Either the transfer fee, signing on fee and wages are affordable. Or they're not.
It's about how the money is allocated and the president it sets also. Put Milner on 150k a year and suddenly the rest of our squad what that.
Nabil 'deciding to leave' would mean fuck all.
How long has he left on contract?
Because Southgate is a numpty
3 years.
Someone earlier said that Milner is in £150k a week (I don't know if it's true). However, as pointed out by an earlier post, if Milner came to us and earned that much then the likes of Lloris, Kane and the rest would demand the same. The way to solve this would be to put Milner on £100k a week and cover the remaining £50k a week for that duration of the contract with a sign on fee
Because if he's signed through 2018, it means he becomes for sale in 2016, or we risk losing a top player on a free or cheap which Levy won't do. And because we were in negotiations with him over a better contract, and now that appears to be on hold. Now is exactly when we should be looking to give him an extension, which we are, just need to let Levy and his agent hash it out.
