If this could be resolved quickly and without issue, then why hasn't it been? And if is more difficult, who's to say he won't miss Spurs as well? Or even more? The fact is we just don't know.
Whilst not understanding the detail of what's going on here, if I'd paid £30m to someone for an asset which - for whatever reason - I could not use, I'd be mighty pissed off about it.
Have we actually handed the money over to Palmeras? I am assuming we have, and if that's the case and it is them who are dicking around, I'd be asking for a few hundred grand back.
EDIT: Off topic perhaps, but I just went onto mancity.com to check who we play after spurs and got the usual crap:
What a complete joke our website has become.