Pay the money.
It is simple. He sits on his ass until the end of August. Maybe you pay what Levy wants. Maybe you don't.
At the end of August if you have paid the money you have a good player who cost an eye-watering amount of money and who is not match fit (BTW I am sure you already know this. He is a very slow starter / returner from injury) or we have a good player who didn't cost us a penny but is not match fit and will need to apologise and get on with it.
Either way we win.
Love a positive person and a great bit of spin.
The reality of the situation however is which every way you look at it, you don’t win.
Either you have your best player (unhappy and unmotivated) or you sell them to a team in your league.
This ain’t happening if we are meeting Levy’s valuation. So Levy has a choice of dropping his value or the former (which seriously weakens his hand).
We’re probably ok, going one more season without a striker (not saying it’s the best decision for , but we have form for it).
We needed a CDM and didn’t get Jorginho we waited a season and got Rodri, when we needed a CD, we didn’t get Maguire we waited a season and then brought Dias.
If we don’t get who we want for the price we are happy to pay, we will wait and go again next season.
We’re lucky we have Pep, who is so good that we have tremendous flexibility.