This is a good point actually. In the crazy world of the Premier League, he would add £10 million to his value by scoring 5 goals and getting 5 assists by January.
What happens when we're second to bottom in January, we've just been hammered 5-0 at the Amex by Watford, half the ground leave on 80 minutes and the remaining 15,000 boo the players off, and Knockaert gets a call saying Everton have made an offer for him and want him to join? "No, I can't...
Always amazes me how naive football fans can be when it comes to their club. He does seem to love it here, and the club's conduct when his Dad died was fantastic, which would make it all the more difficult for him to leave. But does anyone seriously think he will be here until he retires? Come...
If they offer us enough, and pay him enough, he will go. Otherwise, he won't.
That is the way that these things work.
I'm just glad we got promoted, because we'd have no chance of keeping him if we hadn't.