He’ll still fetch a high price tag in a few years – the man is beyond durable. He has the strength, speed and technical prowess to continue competing in the PL for at least the remainder of his current contract with us. He can go to Saudi at 35 if he wants, he’ll remain a legend and will still get a big bag. If he’s as hungry for another major trophy with us as his comments on the shortcomings of last season indicate then he still wants to win with us for the time being.

Agreed that his transfer fee will be crucial in any larger rebuild

36 more matches to go. Tierney as VAR will surely happen at least one more time to try to take points and players off of us.

“We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”