Good decision! Yes he has been playing well this season, but I think that is down to the 'Brown factor', I can see him having a similar stabilising effect on Turner and/or Bramble. No way was Bruce going to keep this lot happy in the reserves so one going is not a hardship to us. O'Shea can play there too and Young Laing will feature more and more in the coming seasons.
More importantly it frees up £40k per week to the wage bill -Bruce's main target- to pay for the in-coming signings.
Even better decision if its £4m being quoted!