Bennett leaves the club

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/...ntract-claims/

Apparently we've made him a derisory offer, quite a bit less than he's currently on.

Seems to me like Holdsworth may be trying to get Beech to resign so we dodge paying his contract off...

It’s what I said on the Purepay thread, the start of ultra-austerity. The three are anxious, and keen to avoid more debt because they know that they won’t get another penny. More than that, being noticed makes them vulnerable.Expect to see anyone on an above-average wage encouraged to either leave or take a pay-cut, just like this. Whether that makes Beech leave is anyone’s guess.

There are mixed feelings about Bennett.

Some say that we were lucky to get him when his supposed Championship deal fell through at the last minute and left him with little choice, plus his association with Beech. He played well in the first half of the season and it is possible for him to return to that form.

Others say that a footballer's entire CV is his last 10 matches and thus he is no better than an average League Two centre back on (in Carlisle United's scheme of things) high wages, so offer him what he is worth and leave it up to him.

There is now, or should be, a refreshing reality in League Two. The wage bill should bear some relationship to income. The demise of Bury and the severe reduction in the status of Macclesfield Town should bring about common sense.

There is a poor argument about wages. This is it. Accrington Stanley had a low wage bill in League Two and look where they are now.
Notts County had a high wage bill in League Two and look where they are now.

This is an argument based on a very small selected extreme sample base. When you look at which 4 teams get promoted each season you will almost invariably see that they have higher basic wages than those that are relegated.

Cheltenham Town and Morecambe have done well this season but neither can sustain a League One existence, given the opportunity.
We do not like to consider Cambridge United as being bigger than us but the Cambridge population is 19% bigger than the Carlisle population, is more wealthy and the club is geographically nearer to real money than Carlisle is.

Some of us look at these extreme cases and try to convince ourselves that they are the norm because we, at the moment, have a bottom six wage bill which is being reduced and there is a lot of debt, indeed the owner of the debt is effectively the owner of the club.