I wouldn’t be surprised if Max isn’t replaced at all but instead we see Banks promoted to more first team squad appearances. Sadly, I believe it’s all about cutting costs now and that would represent a decent saving.

He was only a fringe player anyway so wouldn’t be a gamble.

But if we paid up his contract it doesn't save us anything at all as presumably we paid him the balance all in one go

Glad to see him off the wage bill but it’s still sad to see him depart. I think there’s a decent player in there somewhere. Can’t help thinking a different manager would have found a way to fit him in the team but I guess we’ll never know. It will be interesting to see what he does next.

Thank the lord we have one dead weight off our books. He certainly wasn’t earning 170k a week but I for one will be happy to see the back of him. Has to go down as one of our worst signings taking into account the reputation he came with and the high wages he was being paid.

The money saved can now go to keeping Benteke and Wickham for another year

I hope there’s no pictures of Hennessy waving him goodbye...