I think it's also worth considering that if we did offer £4k plus for Mason, what would that do to the mind set of the key players in our squad?
I imagine that it would be a real nightmare renegotiating contracts for some of our better players, we wouldn't be able to offer them all what Mason would be on and we'd most likely lose half our squad again.
Perhaps Adams feels. with Ruben and Graham's contracts coming up, that money would be better used keeping the core of the squad together so that next season we can actually start in August and not be playing catch up 4 months down the line.