I have said this before and I still think it is the most likely option.
Baines wanted to leave but RM and Bill Kenwright didn't want to lose both players in the same window and at the last minute.
I think it has been agreed that if Utd reach a certain figure that Baines will be allowed to leave in January.
It will have given RM four months to settle in as manager and four months to find a replacement.
Of course there is always the chance that the Utd boardroom may not be very anxious to send another 15m to Everton after their benevolence in the Fellaini transfer and the realisation that just maybe they have not taken the greatest manager in the world from Everton.
In any event I think Evra is still a very good player and Utd have much bigger problems than left back.
It all sounds feasible. I thought I read somewhere that United were struggling for liquidity and the extra that they had to pay for Fellaini meant that they couldn't afford Baines too. Maybe, if the reach the knock out stages of the CL and rally in the league it will give them the funds to make a renewed bid.
I think that Roberto has handled it very well again.
Moyes might well have just denied the story if he was still Everton manager and slapped Stubbs down. Martinez has been open enough to say 'who wouldn't want to play in big CL games? But unless they pay what we think he's worth, he's going nowhere'. He might have a quiet word with his U21 manager still about speaking to the media.