Unless of course his contract with them had a clause that said something like if the loan is cancelled you are still on contract to CCM but you won't be paid or play again for CCM until January 1st.
I am not sayign it DID have a clause like that, because I have not seen the contract. I suspect you haven't seen it either... I am just pointing out it is POSSIBLE that it might have had such a clause, so it is not 100% true that if they are not paying him then they can't possibly have him under contract.