its obvious alright, however he got a big pay rise with his latest contract so he'll just have to honour that if Rafa says he stays. I think he's professional enough to do so as well.
Its easy for Rafa this, we want to keep him, however if you offer top doller (i.e 35 million) by a certain date then we can talk, if not fuck off. we can then say to Xabi we tried and it was them that didn't come through.