FABlue
Player Valuation: £500k
I can't agree with this. The club has offered him a contract yet he has declined to sign it. Furthermore he hasn't had the decency to inform the manager of his future intentions. We are currently trying to strengthen the squad prior to an early start to the season, if he was ,as you suggest, attempting to hold the club to ransom this would be an incredibly self - serving approach at this point. Personally I think he has left the club with no option but to significantly strengthen the position he plays and effectively push him back in the pecking order, and possibly make his decision for him. Foolish boy.
I can't see where he rejected it outright like Lukaku did. Think it's more to do with sorting out the fine details. If he stays people will love him again, if he goes he will be slagged off by majority. People can't wait to stick boot in. Their trigger happy to do same with Lukaku also.
Barkley has currently got the board in his cross hairs and his agent has called Koemans bluff and has them on the ropes.
This would be called great agent work if someone did the same get everton a cheap deal. Barkley agent could have no intention of forcing him out of Everton and his celebration v Burnley shows this himself. However he has kept quiet recently not to give the game away.