The thing that makes less sense is now we have to pay another year of Nat's (improved) wages, another year of Origi's wages, another year of Minamino's wages. For them to do literally f*** all.
We're going to pay Nat probably 1.5-2m in wages? He's gonna sit on the bench for 12 months. His value is only going one way in that scenario. We're far too clever for our own good sometimes.