The Harry Kewell-Melbourne Victory circus will drag on until at least Friday, with the Socceroo now being linked with a move to the Middle East rather than the A-League.
The Victory had issued an ultimatum to Kewell to either sign by Thursday or the club would withdraw its offer.
The A-League club has massaged that deadline out to European time, meaning a decision is now not expected until Friday morning Australian time.
As well as being wooed by Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in Australia, Kewell is also understood to be in the sights of rich Dubai-based side Al Ahli.
The club has recently signed Chilean international Luis Jimenez, and has been chasing Inter Milan's Brazilian centre-back Lucio.
Also complicating matters in any Kewell deal is that the Socceroo's wife, actress Sheree Murphy, is four months' pregnant with the couple's fourth child.
How that impacts upon any deal to move the family to Australia - or away from their northern England home at all - remains to be seen.
The Victory have been negotiating with Kewell since June, offering a deal in which he gets to share in up to 80 per cent of revenue he generates for the club.
But the club has lost patience, now suspicious they have been used to add extra zeroes to a possible Kewell deal in Europe or the Middle East.
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