Should have tried it with Skenes. A few other clubs are doing the same to try to combat the fact that they won't be able to keep any good players they have.
As a Pirate fan I have to say it's at least trying something.
so instead of going like 1x1x1x1 or whatever then get hit with 25-30-30-30 or whatever they smoothed it out to 15 per yr. if he plays well thats bargain pricing the backend for sure.