Only flicked at a few posts and can seem some fairly binary thinking. Good / bad player, good / bad season, pay him / not worth it. The reality is that commitments of this nature - 100k a week for four years = a 20m decision - are big commercial decisions for clubs. As we are not a sugar daddy bankrolled club we have to look at what we can afford on our wage bill and which are our priorities. The decision has to be taken in the round. I don't know who else we have coming up to a contract extension but we have recently invested big in coutinho, and did lallana extend? The club will have its idea as to what it can afford to pay Emre, and an idea as to the best way to negotiate how it gets there, and its contingency plan if it can't pull off the deal. It is not as simple as a small journo soundbite would suggest, and it is not as though Emre is at that key individual level of being the best player in the club. If he was Ste Gerrard I would understand the desperation to pay him whatever, but everyone knows he is not that important. He is good, but it is unsurprising that it might not be the easiest negotiation.