They agreed to pay it because it was in their own best interest that he get off instead of being a convicted criminal.
How would you know what they agreed to? Were you privy to the negotiations and agreements that were made? If so could you please prove it? I'll be more than happy to admit i'm wrong if you can but if you can't you're simply guessing and pulling scenario's that you want to be true out of your arse. The
facts are that the only ones who have this information about what actually happened was the 2 parties involved, not you and not me but i'm not the one speculating what was agreed to. All i'm saying is that the Storm will have to use take any payments made on his behalf off their salary cap and i don't blame them for one second for not paying it.
And why do you keep mentioning "if he stayed". That's meaningless. If he stayed they'd be over the cap and would earn no competition points in 2011 as well. He didn't leave because he wanted to, he left because the Storm cheated the cap. I love how people keep ignoring this reality, but the Storm couldn't just click their fingers and fit 5 million into 4 million.
If he stayed they wouldn't necessarily have been over the cap, they just would've had to shed a few more of the higher paid players to fit him in and had more players on smaller salaries. As long as they're under the cap they can have any players they want to just like any club can.
For example they could've released Manu, Blair and Quinn and replaced them with Tom Dick and Harry from the 20's on minimum contract and there's your money to keep Inglis. It wouldn't have made their squad stronger and more than likely would've hurt them in the long term but it was more than doable as the club quoted many many times. It's not rocket science, don't make out it's much harder than it actually is.