The initial reports said "offered to other clubs" although I can't see many who would be willing to take him and have quota space available. To me that reads they are not sacking or paying him off, at least in full so who knows ?
All in all a sad state of affairs and with the social media comments from his Dad and his previous "likes" played out far too much in public. Like you say with our past record its going to make it harder to sign players from overseas.
bornagain wrote:For us to save cash to spend on another player then Tex either has to leave of his own accord, or be sacked.
Simply sacking somebody without a cast iron case is a foolish thing for us to do if we ever intend to ask a young man to travel around the world and play for us in the future - who would be prepared to take the risk ?
In addition, sacking somebody without very good reason is to invite all manner of breach of contract claims - it just makes no sense to take the legal/financial risk.
I rather suspect that "released" means they pay him his contract and he leaves.
If that is true, it does not save us a penny and means we are without the services of one of our better players.
Genius.