He can talk to clubs from the 1st January, and sign a pre contract agreement. Granted if it’s to move to another English club he has to be into the last month of his contract but I think we all know where his heart is and where he wants to play, in Scotland. So expect him to open talks in January, Rangers might not want him anyway, we won’t offer him a new deal so he could run it down to the last month and sign for someone in the champ/league 1.. one things for sure we have done our money on him, we are not seeing a penny back and he will leave for free. Popular? That has completely passed me by if that’s the case. Nothing against the lad and the court case is a shambles and I hope he gets off with it but when it comes to football he is beyond useless and no blind faith fan of his can tell me otherwise.