Do many challenging Championship teams play 442? (genuine question).
Of course more Championship teams would want him, but they have a lot less money. And Dale wants to play in the PL, there's no way he'll go to a Championship side.
Yeah, but it's not £7m. And I would suggest a 'sign on fee' of a player extending their contract is actually quite high if they've only got a few months left. Of course he'd have got less if he'd extended a year ago, but then he'd have been on higher wages for the last year, and we'd have been...
You think Championship Villa would offer better wages than we would if promoted?
Eh? Burnley were prepared to give Brighton £7m, not Stephens. Do you think Burnley will offer him £7 million cash this summer? I don't think the rest of the Burnley squad would like that.