In a world where:
1) Professional footballers play for money, and like to increase their wages via contract extensions and / or transfers
2) Newly promoted teams often do quite well in their first season in the prem and then regress in their second season
3) Players don't just play for their boyhood teams
4) Managers, like players, periodically move from one club to another
I share your belief that the transfer in question is unlikely... but my post was a comment on another poster's comment about Leeds' likely asking price IF Phillips was put up for sale. Try to keep up.