I still dont get it!
Hopoate was re-signed by the previous board and Des, and at the time he was playing FB. Surely we didnt re-sign Hoppa on FB money as well?
Well hoppa was on unders when he first came over. So this was like the “well sort it out” contract. No way hoops is under 500k I’d say he would be over 650k.
Also Lichaa is on peanuts this year. So say he is on 150k. If it’s a 700k contract (just pulling out numbers here) next year he will be on 550k.
Mbye, Jackson, klemmer, tolman, Foran, woods will all get an increase next year plus any % of the cap rise.
So it makes complete sense to me.
And the selling players makes sense because say you sell mbye and cover 400k of his wages. But you free up 550k then that 550k can be used to sign a decent player who will offer more.
So way argument sake you off load Foran, woods, tolman, mbye. You have to pay 1.6 million from your cap. But you free up say 2.1 million. You can use that 2.1 million to buy some top of the line rookies or some solid first graders. Even though you are paying 1.6 for players to be elsewhere, you would think the replacements could do as good a job (Foran is a shadow of himself, tolmam has barely been fit this year, mbye is consistently inconsistent, woods isn’t a million dollar marquee player).
So ok you pay lots and you won’t be a championship team for some time. But at least you are stuck with horrendous contracts for 4 years.