I think it was a knee jerk reaction when he missed out on AFB tbh. Similar to when he signed Moyza when we lost Jimmy.
Maybe not that scenario.
Moyza wanted out of the Riff, and Hook. The Flange wanted to have Moyza play FB and keep Jimmy. Gould was having none of that, told him straight up "you can have one or the other, you can't have both"
The more comparable is Flange panic buying SJ when Holmes walked out.
There are many complaints about Hynes wage on here, and yes I too think it is too much,
but,
don't ever forget what Flanno did, SJ, Moyza and Dugan all on $900k+. Add in the last couple of years of Woods (he did get him very cheap for the first couple)
How the Dargs ever let him near their cap is beyond me, obviously they didn't do their due diligence.