If i'm not wrong the original deal was done by Moggi but it's true that our new board could have easily ignored the verbal agreement between Moggi and Brazzo.
Instead we decided to go on with this transfer and we signed him half a year after Calciopoli, in January 2007 (he joined us in June, after his contract with Bayern expired), with the conditions agreed between Moggi and Salihamidzic's agent.
I guess back then, while we were in serie B, a free agent with a successful career behind him, wanted by the big Luciano and wanted probably even by Deschamps who was our coach in January 2007, seemed like a good deal.
I agree that it's way too much to give such high wages to a 30 year old, who was obviously in decline. Those were tough times and tough decisions, some of them out of desperation, had to be made. Most of them, this one included, turned out to be wrong decisions.