keep them and state that they won't be named in the squad, so you effectively end their careers if they decide not to leave. If they decide to stay, then you give them a job in the shop selling shirts.
Not MT and SE fault, it is the fault of the executive management that signed them off. For a bunch of people who we are told run the club well financially, they make some shocking recruitment decisions in terms of contract management.
Also we were told by SE that he was pushing for Odoffin to be offered a contract and he put the delay onto that executive management, MH comes in and a contract is offered to him and Humphries in a few weeks. What does that tell us about SE and the executive management?