Quote Nothus="Nothus"Why the hell would we do that?
Paying out the remainder of someone's contract just makes absolutely no sense to me. You lose the player yet his salary for that final year still counts on the cap, so why not just keep him?'"
I don't think its like that - for example it was mentioned at the fans forum how the cap reduced on the day that Dave Halley left the club
I am guessing here, but I suspect what has happened is that a final payment has been made for the remaining year of his contract. So, let's say he was on £25K per year, perhaps they offer about half of that, say, £12 for him to leave. Thereby you actually 'gain' the balance back into the salary cap 'pot'
The figures are entirely made up, but I suspect its something like that, because - I agree - it makes no sense to pay someone their full years salary and not have their services anymore.