We need to wait and see what the final outcome is but if we released him without getting a player in return the board have just lost all the goodwill they had earned with Barrett and Cotric. The pressure will be back on them.
Personally, I'm not too fussed about losing him. For every one good thing he does, he''ll follow it up with something stupid. In a shit team he looks like a superstar but there is a reason he was regularly playing CC when he was at the Panthers. We need to use his cash and buy a gun teenage backrower to replace him