Not looking good, this one.
He wants games and rightly so. We aren't willing to drop Baines for him.
Liverpool want him as backup to Moreno with a view to displacing him in a couple of years.
Spurs, on the other hand, want him too and will almost guarantee him a starting spot because they don't have a good left back.
Hell, I've even heard City are looking at him as a possible English replacement for Kolarov and Clichy in the next couple of years.
If we want to keep him, he wants a guarantee on his playing time. Can we give him that? I would like to think so, but I doubt it. He was offered a contract, it still hasn't been signed. Does look like he's off.