With the review of the playing staff and the obvious answer, is get rid of all, they are all shit, since we need to do this as cost effectively as possible, maybe Bevington was tasked with talking to some of these tossers agents, i.e. Gabby, Bactwat, Richards, Guzan and trying to find out exactly what percentage of their remaining, hopefully relegated clause contracts they would require to be shifted.
Also with the sale, we know Randy has wanted out, so the talks could have been going on for a lot longer than we thought, but only over the last say 3 to 4 weeks has a serious intentioned buyer been identified, so that also saw the departure of Bernie and King, as their remit was changed to sit on your hands boys orders from the man child, a deal is on the cards. There e-mail content something like ' Yeah where has the stupid twat heard that before"