A - we wouldn't pay his wages, or only a small %
B - he may come good and then come back and perform here/command a sale fee
C - its no skin of our nose due to point A

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Pay up his contract which will enable us to get someone in on loan in Jan window

If I was off work sick as long as he has been I would have been investigated by now!

I do not doubt Connor has ability and he certainly gives everything when he does play.

However, as a club and a business we have to pay him up now and move him on before the January window. He is taking up a space in our squad that we could do with replacing as goals is our biggest issue.

Do we want to try and stay in this league or continuously pay this man for very little in return?

Horrible to have to say this but your time is up Connor and I wish you all the best for the future.

Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

I assume the club goes on the advice of medical experts. If we are being told he is over his main injuries and that these latest setbacks are unrelated it would be silly to release him for nothing.

It maybe that the club has been told that he "might" recover and based on that the club had decided that as we have to pay his wages anyway it is better to continue to hope especially if the insurance company will not sign off.

From my time in management insurance companies are very reluctant to retire someone due to sickness, they will cling to "maybe" in a medical report. Doctors of course are reluctant to outright state this person will never work again unless the evidence is 100%.

So the club may have tried to pension Wickham off but the Insurance company might have said no and the club thought we're stuck with his wages so keep going until either he is written off, contract runs out or he recovers.

Lots of ifs and maybe's but none of us really know.

One more point

Just cannot see this turning around, at Palace anyway. Hes been out too long and just cannot get in condition. I really like him as a player but hes a burden on the wage bill with zero roi. I am almost certain the club would have investigated possibilities of termination of contract.

According to Roy,Wickham is available for selection tomorrow,which is fantastic news provided he does not injure himself doing pre match warm up exercises once again.
Fingers crossed he comes off the bench and scores the winner.