He's 27 this year, getting a massive salary increase and guaranteed trophies every season. Easy choice.
Speaking of branch warmers getting (medals) trophies, I often wonder when I see 3rd choice goalies/rarely used subs going tonto on trophy day.
Fair play to them for enjoying the day, but do they really feel they have played a part.
Taking Roy Keane as an example, 1999 CL.
He done the business against Juve to get to the final, as we know, sat it out. He (and Scholes) were said to have felt frauds lifting the trophy. On the basis they didn’t achieve it.
Which was wrong imo. They were the vehicle to the final.
But a player with minutes only, getting an EPL medal. Different story.