What I am feeling, from nowhere at all, is that the club are hoping the his contract can be terminated by mutual consent.
If that happens do the club have to pay off all that he is owed or can that be negotiated, that is the club say "Billy mate, we'll give you 40% of your remaining contract if rip it up now"
Billy can then go and play for whom he wants..
I don't like the way this conversation is going, it's freaking me out..
OK, I meant I have a -ve IQ, honest, it's a line I plagiarised from Terry Pratchett, although I think he was referring to Rincewind's MQ, or Magic Quotient....
Jamie Redknapp used to (still does??) live 10 mins (on a good day, 2 hours in the summer) down the road from me in Sandbanks. His dad does too, I regularly drive past his house wishing I had a molotov cocktail to hand!!
If you read Glasgow's post here (it would seem that) the offer being talked about happened last summer, i.e. just after we'd gained promotion back to the land of milk and honey!!
Like you I can remember no rumours of any PL interest in Billy this summer.
You'd have to work out your contract, currently I'm on a 3 month contract so if I want to go to another job I have to give 3 months notice unless I can negotiate with my current employers.
Billy is contracted to Saints until whenever so, unless the club cancel his contract, he's with us until then. If another club wants him then they have to buy his contract out for a fair price!!
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And can someone please explain where this bit about Billy having 3 offers from Premiership clubs has come from, no rumours during the summer, nowt.
Southampton striker Billy Sharp is wanted by Reading, Leeds, Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday and Doncaster when the loan transfer window opens up this week. But the 27-year-old fears he may have to stay as the Saints are refusing to subsidise his £18,000-a-week wages.
From the BBC gossip pages
No, it is very good things to say bout my father in laws (or c-i-l) because he lives with us, is incontinent and is an obstreperous old curmudgeon...and that's his endearing features.
So, to hove this swiftly back on topic..
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My wife just moaned at me for texting her to get me a beer from the fridge.
I guess she's right, that's what the little bell is for.
I'm sure you couldn't resist a direct swap for this little beauty :-
I'll even let you photocopy the fish recipes for your microwave so that when you perfect the art you'll be able to eat them...