Quote Coventry Warrior!="Coventry Warrior!"Problem with Phelps is he takes up a Quota spot, if he didn't he would have a new contract for sure!'"
Personally I think the quota spot is a bit of a red herring, given the salary cap it may well be the case that freeing up the quota spot by releasing Phelps would be a waste as we couldn't afford anyone better due to the cap limit. Phelps is hardly on top money so his realse would not exactly make enough SC space for a top drawer import.
I suspect it will all come down to cap space - after all the club has just signed several youngsters on to pro contracts and some of the first team contracts are due for renweal (or will be so next year) so cap room will be the key rather than quota.
Given the season they have just had I also suspect that several on the younger players in the squad will be due/looking for salary increases as well.