Club just say they have a recruitment model - which involves a sustainable wage structure and they stick to it. - Barber repeated this mantra again at the Fans Forum. (our average wages are - accordiing to the accounts - 53K a week so its hardly peanuts) So presumably that was the case for...
No idea. But they certainly must think he's still value for money if thats the case ( anyway - i guess we don't know if a contract has been offered or will be signed - just that RDZ has publicly said he'd favour it)
If club or RDZ think that having a Lallana or Milner on hand in the dressing room , or available for even limited minutes (alongside other veterans like Welbeck, Dunk, Gross, Veltman) - because they benefit from more than just their playing time , it helps with the balance of the squad...