Just what I was going to say.As we saw with Eriksen, when you let a contract run down to its last year, the player has the power.
Given that he has the same agent as Mourinho, I think that it is very likely that terms have been discussed and we have an agreement in principle with the player.
Agents and Jose have the terms sorted already.
Southampton know it too, hence Ralph changing his tune from publicly saying he’s off, to now toeing the party line and being forced to say they’ll let him stay, just to try to maintain a modicum of bargaining power!
And the final trump card is, we’ll just increase the cost of KWP by whatever extra amount Southampton demand for PEH. Which joking aside, may be done mutually as a face saver for them.
“We got £30m from Spurs for Hjoljberg”.
And KWP goes the other way for an undisclosed fee.... (£29m).