Yes we can theoretically, however much has been made of wheelers small contract and the fact he was on an appearances bonus it would mean that the player we signed would have to be on a similar contract assuming we are at the top of the salary cap.

If you de-register a player does that not mean he will be outside the clubs health insurance?

And if so that will be a very crappy trick to play on a player whose life must be in tatters now.

I think Friday is the last time you'll see Wheeler in a Wire shirt, unless he wants to stay purely on a pay as you play contract. No idea how he'd get by on that like.

Just to put this to bed; there are no such things as 'pay per play' contracts.

Half true,

Wheeler is on a very basic contract per year. Roughly 20K I've been told but is heavily subsidised by appearance money.

That is the same for any player but all players (including Academy and Reserves) receive a monthly salary.

No-one is simply on a match fee.