I think you may mean this on JP's Facebook,
"There was no intent to sell Murphy. We have rejected million pound+ offers all Summer long for Jamie from Championship clubs. We accepted the last offer only when the player in multiple meetings, conversations and in writing made clear his desire to go. You can choose to call us liars, but these are the facts. We do not own the player, we own contractual rights. The value of the contractual rights drops for a number of reasons if you try to keep a player beyond the point when he has requested to go. This is my explanation."
Thanks Cyprus, I read Phipps comment at the time but perhaps I can add to what JP has already said.
Phipps is technically correct,
but it's how you interpret the notion of contractual rights. This boils down to services the player provides for the club. As an employee of SUFC the player will be expected to maintain an off field set of behaviour standards that reflect well on the club. Of course, if, as a player, you indulge in certain activities that are viewed as detrimental to the way you're expected to behave and get caught, the club can act to show their displeasure. As for your footballing talents, depending on how good you are you may attract attention for other clubs, some who can pay far larger wages than you currently earn. With that in mind who wouldn't push for a move if at all possible? The answer, if it's within the owning club's wherewithal, is to offer the player an increase in wages provided they extend their existing agreement. Currently we don't seem to fit that part of the equation, so there's an inevitability about a player wanting to move.
I should add, if a player has a couple of years left on his agreement the owning club can play hardball, as much as some poster's appear unwilling to see this as a realistic option. The club can remind the player that he signed an agreement in good faith, but if he continues to play well the club will seriously consider selling the player to a club, at an unspecified date, who are willing to offer an acceptable price for his services. In the meantime the owning club can begin the search for a player to replace the one they'll eventually sell. It's fairly predictable stuff, but there's more than one way to approach this, regardless of Phipps' interpretation.
As for Adams, we either get him to extend his agreement, or we can expect to see him move, quite possibly at his pace and at a time that suits him.