Someone enlighten me

I’m still confused about franchise teams' contracts with their players. Let’s say a player signs a contract for the 2025 season in 2024, with the contract ending after the 2026 season. What happens in the following scenarios:

A. The team decides not to play the player anymore at the end of the 2025 season (or even mid-season). Does the player just get dropped without any bonus since the team itself break the contract? (Understandable if yes).
B. The team decides not to partner with the player anymore, and/or another team wants to buy the player. Does the other team have to pay a huge buyout since the contract is still long? Is this what they call a contract jail, where the player can’t go anywhere because no team is willing to pay the large buyout for their contract? Is the contract buyout price determined by the contract duration?

This came to my attention because I’ve seen some names with contracts due to 2026-2027 season. However, knowing how this industry goes, I wouldn’t be surprised if that doesn’t matter and they end up being dropped after just a season or so. Thanks good people

When players sign a contract the org is saying that they will field them on the roster for that many years. In most contracts there is an out stating that if the players contract is terminated before that time then either the player gets paid a certain ammount from the org (this is in cases where an org drops a player for reasons outside of what is stated to be a valid reason in the contract) or the player gets nothing due to failure to uphold the contract.

I dont know how VCT contracts work exactly but I have to assume things like the player must have good branding/do certain things for the team, and I wouldnt be suprised if there was something in there stating the org reserves the right to cut a player if their performane is below a certain level

A. The contract means money given over a period of time, and that period of time stays unless a breach of contract happens. The player still will get paid until the end of their contract, no matter how little they play.
B. The other team will have to buy out the rest of the money owed by the contract, plus (im pretty sure of this part) extra for the player to play for the new team. I could be wrong on that part, and the contract money just switches teams, but the player might also want extra to move. No team wanting to buy you out due to big contract money even though youre good on a bad team = "contract jail." (from my definition; "Hades_loves_Rb" also has a better technical definition)

If a player is good throughout their contract (as the team hopes), the contract will be perfect so other teams don't want to buy the player out, and the player earns enough with the team to want to stay to play and win games+trophies.

hope this helps goat

Not reading any of these long ass posts sry I’m vtired