I get all those factors , but let’s imagine we definitely had contract clauses we heard about.
The club says “ screw you you’re terminated instantly “
The ****storm that would follow would be absolutely MASSIVE, the media would come down on us like a tonne of bricks.
And Schusters manager would then urge a legal fight ( which we might win or might lose but the winners would be the legal team , could easily cost $200-$300k to fight this, and then more bad press.
OR
We could be fair , and offer $200k a year for the next three years ( and then pay $400k of it this year that was already in the budget), leaving just a pittance of $66k a year after that.
Added to that , he had mates in the group , this will be seen as “ taking care of the kid “.
Yeah the extra $600k would be great in our salary cap BUT overall still the right thing to do.