What the hell does "Agreed 3.5 years in principle" mean?

[Nicosia Gooner]

It sounds conditional to me so a complete waste of time

[Billy Goat Sverige]

He probably has signed the paper, they just haven't announced it yet, officially.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[redgunamo]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

3.5 years, wtf.

We will have to renegotiate a new deal with him next summer as he will be 2 years from being free again.

[Doughboy-TSL]

I'm a ********" ********.

[Curly]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We flog him now and get coin instead of f**k all. Top quality negotiating by the club.

We can all now revert to the previously held notion that he's not really that good.

[The Tony]