I think the problem is with any fans favourite player. Is you want him to do well.
Personally I think he deserves game time so a loan to L1/2 would have been a good move. As we could always recall if we needed him.
Should make the bail out voluntary on the basis if you need a bail out you get x amount of points deducted.
This would soon weed out the teams that want one rather than need.
Personally I think the FA should stop picking ex players and names as managers.
Get a successful manager from lower leagues who doesn't care about what team someone plays for an plays players on form.