gordondaviesmoustache said:
This could only be true (the buying himself out of the contract) if there was a move to Russia on the cards, which would bring in to serious question his agent's claim about this not being about money.
£22 million for an underperforming 29 year old with two years left on his contract seems pretty good business to me.
It's almost certainly wind and piss anyway. If they intended to do it, then they'd just do it, not announce it to the British press two months before their surprise attack.
I agree with the part about him being an under performing 29 year old. He definitely hasn't been anywhere near his best this season.
My advice to him is to get a new agent. All this current big mouth has managed to achieve is to make YaYa look like a right prima donna.