Country: England
Player:Rice
why didn't they do it in the summer? they dropped him from the squad, ostracized him, and now terminated his contract
Probably because we were in a global pandemic with no end in sight at the time. You don't want to be paying off pretty much a full years contract for a guy on £92k a week in one lump sum when you don't know what your financial outlook is going to look like in 3-4 months.
I can't understand your issue with it. It was a mutually agreed termination between both Sokratis and Arsenal. If Sokratis didn't like the terms of the contract termination, it wouldn't have happened. It's not something that was forced on him.