But he desperately wants to leave them, they are holding him back and blocking his big move, and we are willing to overpay massively for him.
They should be grateful for us because we are the only club offering insane amount money for a player who no longer wants to play for them, and no other clubs are interested at anywhere near our offered price. I mean he could leave them for free in few years time, or for very low fee when he is on last year of his contract, that could easily turn into another Gravenberch situation (selling for cheap) or even Pogba situation (leaving for free) for them. And he could be toxic in their dressing room over coming season or so.
Plus in the past, we are always paying good money for their players too, unlike some other clubs who would take their players on last year of their contract on discount fee. As football club they have a great history and we respect that, but as seller club (as in recent 30 years) we are always treating them with utmost respect and always willing to giving them the best we could offer.
They are just fecking us around this time, going against the player's wish and their very own tradition of how they always run their club, acting like an ungrateful cnut and keep ignoring our insane offers, for a player they have absolutely zero chance of keeping in future anyway, who is currently going to media bitching them and going on strike.