you think no one would take him on loan if we paid 30-50% of his salary?
take a look at the list il brutto posted, off the top of my head, Bale, Coutinho, Pjanic, Lingard, Bakayoko all have been loaned to other clubs, some of them multiple times. it's not impossible, our mgmt's just not doing it. or if we go back a few years - we terminated MLS level players Matuidi and Higuain and a basically retired player Khedira, all were on top level salaries. sure some of them required a golden handshake, but it's better to give it than to keep a massively overpaid player on our payroll for 2 seasons.