Thing is, we blow more on player wages who end up doing absolutely nothing - Taylor, Arter, Freeman, Knockaert this season alone will have cost far more, and its just part of football. Always find it odd that people would dismiss paying a manager who could take us to a place to promotion because of his high wages.
Not saying for a minute that what Jokanovic asked for was reasonable, but if he got us promoted, which ultimately individual players aren’t likely to do, why would you not just pay him what it takes when we’ll do it for a bunch of players?
His wages won’t cost a tenth of what it’s taken to employ and sack our last few failures - do we not appoint him because of his wages and we can’t afford it or on principle?
If it’s the latter, it’s frankly stupid and short sighted.