Quote Originally Posted by Whoopee View Post
My other point in this whole debacle is how many players "train" at other clubs while under contract to another?

Option year. Letting him go test the market somewhere else was the best thing for the team. He wanted more money and they didn't want to give it to him. He was entering the option years on a contract the team said it would renegotiate at that point. So both sides took some risks and did some renegotiating. If the first statement from TFC when it was outed over DeRo gong to Celtic had been, "Oh yeah, he asked we said yes," there would be no story, there would only be business as usual.