It is so obvious that if he had said I am definitely playing for the Albion this season it would have been all over the website and Argus too, it is just the club covering themselves and nobody knows for sure what is happening
Maybe his agent thought he could sneak him off for nowt thus pocketing the cash but Bloom/Barber have overruled Gus and thought f*** that for a game of soldiers and want some compo for last season when he got paid for f*** all and we spent bundles on him getting fit.
I think June 30th is the cut off for contracts so we have to activate it by then or he becomes a free agent, lets face it if he committed himself for another season here then there would have been a more fulsome announcement