It seems rather unfortunate.

The 49's are not known as being a "star" based team. They have great talent but won't use an excessive amount of payroll on a single player. If that mindset holds true for Leeds then the 40 million (80 million counting Archie) makes a lot of business sense in a coldly calculating way.

The saving grace might be that they hold on to him longer to see if they can get even bigger money.