Running down his final year, at that stage, City are forced to make it attractive enough to at least try and persuade him to reconsider.
Raheem isn't worth more than the £300k a week he is already receiving, but City are forced to think bigger to try and protect their original investment and now allow him to run his own deal down any further.
City could have sold Garcia in another two years time under contract and still more than recoup a fee that would outstrip the wages we had paid out to him.
Sometimes it is about securing talent, like it was with Kev.
But there are also business decisions to be made on people like Garcia.