Quincy Abeyie wrote:Anzac wrote:I don't get it. IMO we need to purge to be able to move forward without any baggage. We're never going to recoup anything for him in a depression and he'll leave as a free agent. Suck it up and just clean the slate ffs.
Why is that better? Wouldn't the only difference in cost be that we pay him his entire salary for the remainder of his contract now instead of weekly? That's not smart. Both because you don't simply pay earlier than you have to and because you shouldn't tell other players that this is something you're willing to do.
Agreed, you don’t want to set a precedent, arguably this is happening because of what happened with Sokratis and Ozil.
Just send him out on loan somewhere if you don’t want him around.