Gareth Bale's agent has once again announced that his client has absolutely no intention of leaving Real Madrid this summer.
That may come as a surprise given the very minimal role he has under Zinedine Zidane but when you look at his contract and the financial benefits of staying put in the Spanish capital, it becomes clear.
Bale signed a mammoth six-year deal back in October 2016. Florentino Perez was so desperate to keep him at that he threw a hugely lucrative deal at him to ward off interest from Manchester United.
His 'deal for life' runs out in 2022 and, at the time he signed it, put Bale as football's third highest earner, below only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and above Neymar, who was still at Barcelona at this stage.
Bale moved to the Spanish capital from Tottenham for a then-world-record £86m in 2013 and had helped them to two of his four Champions League triumphs when he signed those new terms, scoring 50 league goals in 90 games for the club.
He was supposed to be the player the club built its future around but instead Bale has become something of an enigma at the Bernabeu.
The former Spurs ace rarely starts under Zidane and has become consigned to the bench or, as proven against Leganes on Sunday, not even in the squad.
Real are now paying the price of handing him such a lucrative contract just under four years ago. Why would Bale want to leave?
It is thought the Welshman is paid a staggering £346,000 a week, or £18million a year, after tax.
It has been 48 weeks and three days since Real Madrid played their first competitive game of the season, a 3-1 victory at Celta Vigo back in August 2019.
That means Bale has earned a staggering £16.6m so far this season, or considering Real have now played 50 games during this campaign, £332,000 per match.
Bale has been involved in 1,260 of the 4,500 minutes Real have played this season, meaning he has raked in a ridiculous £13,174 per minute on the pitch.
To make things worse, Bale has earned £5,123 for each of the 3,240 minutes he has either been sat on the bench or not been available for selection.
Even when given chance to impress Zidane, Bale has rarely made himself undroppable. He has contributed just three goals, at a cost of £5.53m each, and two assists, worth £8.3m each, all season.
Those are not the figures of a man who must displace Eden Hazard, Marco Asensio, Rodrygo and Vinicius for a place in Zidane's three-man attack.
Real have also paid Bale £1.4m for each chance he has created, £33,535 for every single one of his 495 passes and £405,000 per shot so far this season.
Bale has once again been on the periphery of the Real squad this season, as highlighted during their LaLiga title celebrations last week when he was filmed hovering at the back.
Zidane was later picked up by his players and thrown into the Madrid sky as part of the celebrations but images showed the Welshman stood slightly away from the ruck of players, arms folded as he decided against joining in.
Despite those scenes, and Bale's declining importance to the team, his agent again insisted this week that his client has no desire to move on.
'Gareth is fine. He has two years left on his contract,' his agent Jonathan Barnett told BBC Sport.
'He likes living in Madrid and he is going nowhere. He is still as good as anyone else in the team. It's up to Zinedine Zidane.
'Of course there's been interest but there's hardly a club in the world which can afford him.
'It's a great loss that he's not in the Real Madrid team at the moment but he will not leave.
'Gareth is not looking to outlast Zinedine Zidane. Mr Zidane has been very successful. there's no hatred. Mr Zidane just does not want to play him. Gareth trains every day and he trains well.'
Real are next back in action against Manchester City in the second leg of their delayed Champions League last-16 tie.
If they can overturn the 3-1 deficit then Real could still play three more matches in the revised one-legged quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, giving Bale plenty more opportunities to prove his worth.
But while he is earning so much for doing so little, don't expect him to leave any time soon?