Quote Builth Wells Wire="Builth Wells Wire"As we all know contracts mean nothing these days. All it means is that if anyone wants to sign him it will cost just that bit more'"
So contracts mean quite a lot.
Rugby league clubs don't tend to be that cashed up, so there's a big difference between a player being available on the transfer market for £200k, or being a free agent.
And also it does mean the club can refuse to sell. Although people say well if you have a disgruntled player he won't play well anyway, if a player has more than a year of his contract and he is playing the game of "I'll just sulk and play badly for however many years till I'm a free agent" he may find that when he is a free agent the world has moved on and he's not the hot property he was a couple of years ago.
Clark knows that he has reduced his bargaining power in terms of wanting out by signing for 4 years rather than say 2, so most likely he has looked around and thought Warrington is the best option.