Free Agents aren't released to the list anymore, only when they are in national team or U21 rosters.
So even a 200k salary player can be lost if his owner turns bot and he isn't in the NT/U21 roster.
indeed.
seasons ago players with salaries over 10k where released, but gradually the wage raised for releasing players. The last period that happened I think they where at 25k or something. Then BB decided that there are enough talents in BB-world so they wouldn't need to pick up the ones in the inactive teams to fill the active teams with more good players. The only reason why U21 and NT players are released is because otherwise the NT or U21 team would loose their player...
About GM's: they don't know that many more then the other average player. And GM's often even know a littlebit less then the most active players in this game.
In fact all info we have about the gameplay, is acceseable for everyone. ;)
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