Smart to negotiate sufficient time to get into a position where the clause is an irrelevance.
Man - the players we have lost in recent time through being in a position of a weakness due to poor long term planning - Alonso, Suarez, Coutinho, Mascherano, Sterling, Torres, Owen, McManaman. Only success and being on a good long term path (so being strong on and off the pitch) stops that rot. And we are indeed on that path now.