Placid or sit tight and make it City’s problem such that he goes out on season long loans every season, or they come to a financial agreement to pay off his contract and he leaves by ‘mutual consent’.
If I was him, I’d do the former and go and play in Europe, be like an extended holiday until 2028, getting paid £7.8m pa. Germany for a season, Italy the next, Spain the one after then France or Portugal. Be a right gig.
