That's encouraging news if correct. As Merse says, having competent players on season-long contracts is penny-pinching to the extreme.
Don't forget it works both ways. You don't have to think back very far to remember that the bunch of incompetents that Alan Knill saddled us with for 2 years, many of them on sufficiently lucrative contracts that meant that a crowbar wouldn't shift them while the big pay packets were coming in.
Those poor players, several of whom couldn't even get into the first team, sat tight on their 2 year contracts doled out by Knill. Just imagine if they'd only been one season deals and Chris Hargreaves had all their substantial wages with which to entice the players HE wanted ? Our chances of an immediate return to the Football League would have been substantially increased.
Also, it's a fact of modern football life that after a few defeats trigger happy directors and fans want to see a Manager sacked. Even Nicho, who is relatively new to management is one of the longest serving Managers in the division. If you give 2 year contracts to players, while also forever going down the path of replacing managers more frequently, then the consequence is that the new guy will be saddled with another managers players for longer.
He'll have to wait even longer before he gets the chance to bring in the players he wants. In fact he could well get sacked before he ever gets the chance, if the players enjoy substantially more job security than their Manager.