[Maddix]

If we put him in the shop window in January we just might get something ("dosh") for him is my thought.

From January he becomes free to negotiate his next place of work and can sign a pre-contract agreement with whomever he likes and there is nothing we can do to demand a fee according to European law. Hence the extension 

I'll bet you a dead baby seal cub that he ends up at L%*ds