Is his contract not up at end of season anyway???

Quite a strange one really,if he is out of contract or declines the Tupe its quite possible the dreaded agent could say "well there's no fee involved so let's bang a few quid on the salary demand". Then it's all down to what our structure will allow and how much we want/need to keep him. May well be some hard negotiations to be done but for first time in a long time I'm pretty confident we have the right people to do this.

I'm guessing he probably could but if he is on the sort of money that is rumoured at the Bulls he might not see that in his best interests? Unless of course he receives a similar offer from Wakefield, but if he is among the top earners at Bradford then that is perhaps unlikely?

Bradford will see a massive overhaul of playing staff. I can't imagine the new owner continuing to lose in excess of 100k a month. So with that in mind Sykes might be a player they'd like to offload bearing in mind his wage.

I don't think there is much doubting that. But I imagine Sykes will either want compensation from Braford or Wakefield to get very close to matching his current salary.