I agree entirely and that's what I thought too, but I asked the question as some had been using this flawed arguement as a stick to beat the club with.
So the club are in all likelihood still paying the wages then?
Cheers for clearing that one up. That was one of the arguments over an on-loan striker, with the inference that CMS and Hoskins wage bill was freed up. This would appear not to be the case.
Are football players insured to protect themselves and provide recompense should they have an injury that ends their career or is it to compensate a club should they get injured (or both for that matter)?
What I'm essentially getting at is, are an insurance company currently paying CMS's et al...