One thing you can say about James McCarthy is that he seems to have a very wise head on his shoulders
He was offered a contract at Liverpool & turned it down coz he said it would be better for his development to be playing in the first team at Hamilton every week rather than sitting in the reserves/youth set up at Liverpool playing in meaningless matchs – even if it mean him losing out financially
I’d say as he’s still pretty young that he’d be thinking along the same lines still & if he goes to a club like Liverpool this summer that he’s not yet at that stage where he’d be a first team regular whereas at Latics he will be.
If Latics stay up I think he’ll stay for another season unless one of the mid to lower top half teams comes in for him & its likely that he’d be out of their price range