Shameful response to this news from some in this thread. The lot of you are more interested in shiny transfers than actual footballers. This man is the reason we are anything other than a completely irrelevant bottom half PL team who will finish in the bottom half of the PL again next year. Our only unequivocally top class footballer (amongst a handful who are good or very promising, admittedly), the most creative player in the PL since he joined, our most committed, hardest working player. Plays as much football as any top footballer in the world and never once complains - in fact, it seems he hates to be left out of any game, no matter how inconsequential. The 'who would be captain if Bruno leaves' thread shows how spineless we would be without him.
If a big European club comes for him, I'll wish him well. He'd deserve it. At Madrid or Bayern or Barca or PSG he'd have got a hatful of trophies and would be going down as one of the best of his generation. Just imagine what his assist stats would be like if he'd spent the last five years at Madrid. Instead he's grafted and struggled through our doldrum years with us. And ultimately he's given us his career, because no European club is going to offer the kind of fee we'd demand for a 30-year-old. And thank god, because we're at the weakest, most precarious point in our history since relegation in '74, and losing really the only reliable foundation this squad has at this point could be catastrophic.
Rant over.