Players dont always leave clubs cause they want to, sometimes they are told you have no future here and we have accepted an offer for you from another club. The parent club cant then just default on that players contract.
Most of the time the remaining contract owed to a player is factored...
Bridcutt is under contract to us, if we decide to sell him to another club then we have to pay the remainder of his contract up, why should he lose out on his agreed contract just cause we have decided to sell him to another interested club.
if he asks to leave however, we dont.
It helps with the deal, Bridcutt will now lose out on what he would have been entitled to be paid for the remainder of his contract with us which would have had to have been factored into the transfer fee.