We're all childish in how we view football, we see this as a more emotional family-unit issue, the ground is our home and changes always feel destabilizing like in our domestic environment. Players are more career oriented, we still use the plant language to describe them putting 'shifts' and earning per week, but bottom line they're multi-millionaires with a business empire each.I wouldn't say it was childish. Hopeful perhaps.
Who knows what's round the corner? That's all he's saying. If he wins things here, & is regularly in the CL, then it boils down to wages. And if we can stay at the top table, then the financial rewards will likely follow. If he goes, it will be for a huge fee.
How many players nowadays play their entire career in one club? I suspect it will be under 1% (dele also came from elsewhere). Dele is a professional player, he's giving 110% when he plays for us but I don't think we should think badly of him if he feels like he might want a go in Barca\Real\Bayern in the future (because in his footballer's brain that's always a step up). As long as he keeps everything classy I can respect that, I feel coming to an understanding with him that he'll carry on for the next 2 years will make him and the club happy.
Players are ambitious little pricks usually moved by misguided agents and symbols of levels in the market. Sad, but that's how it is. The fact that players like Harry or Harry could play their entire career for us is an outlier that says more about them than on the standard player.