I'm starting to think that he would have been better off letting him go with Fozzy. There would have been far less furore. If he's too expensive for us, just say so. Halo just a little bit tarnished after this episode.
This topic has been done to death. There's 9 threads on it today alone, not to mention the 10s of others from the last week or so. All it is, is speculation.