There might be a hidden bonus in that if he's still worth something in 2 year's time we don't have to let him go on a free. Where as if he was on a 2 year contract it'd be 20K a week and could leave on a free. If he does end up being in the shop window at euro 2016 it might be a nice bit of business.
One hopes he has a great euro16 then ? I suspect that he'll be slowly phrased out and hopefully Oliver Burke gets slowly introduced.