What line did you quote?
You quoted our overall wage bill which tells us nothing about Hause’s wages.
You may as well have said ‘the overall wage bill was £119m, so dividing that by 45, multiplied by 8, take away the number you first thought of, now look at football manager to find out that the tea lady is getting £12.50 an hour.’
Anyway, all that is moot.
£8k, £20k, is not the issue.
Calling someone a wasteman (I know it wasn’t you) for signing a contract that was offered to him. Calling said contract ‘big’ whilst not actually knowing what that contract is. Criticising the contract when you have no clue with regards to the terms of the contract.. is odd.
MAYBE we got a loan fee of £500k. MAYBE they paid all his wages. MAYBE he cost is literally nothing, or MAYBE we even made a profit. MAYBE we made a small loss, but had a recall option which made the loss worthwhile?
Who knows? But I doubt we looked at the situation and thought ‘you know, we don’t need you, but what heck, here’s £1m/yr for jokes. Enjoy.’