His contract was probably extended so wouldn't lose him as free agent, That's why I believe this club running by a a bunch of idiotic puppets. Who in their right mind would pay for a player who is constantly injured and who plays less than the number of games on one hand in a season? There's no guarantee he won't get injured again after he comes back from injury.
Is this a joke?
- His contract was 3.00 million for one more year.
- That's hard to pawn off on teams to loan him for smaller clubs.
- We've "extended" his contract 1 more year (two years) but BOTH years now at 1.5m
- This allows us to spread that 3.00m hit across two years
- AND this allows when shopping him for a loan, smaller clubs will now be more easily able to cover more of his salary since its only 1.50m vs 3.00m
This isn't that hard. This is us lowering his impact on our wage bill and hoping the lower Annual Average Value of 1.50 will make him easier to loan out at hopefully the entire salary. Whereas, if we loaned him out at 3.00m salary for one more year and the loaning team paid HALF, we'd still be paying him 1.50m (half) to fuck off. Now, we hope we can send him out and retain maybe only 30% of his wages (now only 450k) and also opened up the clubs that could possibly get him due to his lower annual wages.