What you say could be true, as I said, I can only quote what the player in question has told me player told me by word of mouth.Not saying it wasn't true but it might have been that JC was on more money than JO'F and so if he was only going to keep one he kept the cheaper one.
For my part, I'm highly sceptical when the man in the street starts quoting figures concerning peoples wages, especially when recently we've had all sorts of sums bandied about when discussing the remuneration of our suits.