A buy out clause then?
The fact that a player can leave when out of contract means we get nothing back anyway.
There is also the small fact that a contract is only signed when both parties agree to it, and therefore, until you are personally involved, you won't know what the initial contract offered was. The player could have rejected and re-negotiated.
Just means players like coker can not just leave for free because if we said to him sign a 2 year extension on your current deal and a club comes in offers x amount for you you can go otherwise if you dont want to sign your up for sale. because as soon as it goes past that point the power switches to the player.
Why would a player want to sign in that instance?
Players know the power they have, the timing of signing a contract is totally in their hands.
in that case if i player doesnt want to sign you put him up for sale otherwise they will run their contract down and go for free