All and any other aspects that go into a rider contract.
Your comment was the only thing attractive to him about signing for Ipswich would be locality - which is wrong.
Going back to other analogies used....
If someone asked a copper "how many years will I get for armed robbery" and got the answer "actually it will only be 6 months"
1)Should that conversation be any kind of defence?
2)The copper is guilty of nothing more than stupidity at worst and certainly hasnt commited any offence