He is the only one that has a big wage from Laporta era. Let's not talk about Messi's contract, you know the El Mundo leaked story. Messi was on 138m a year. If we still have to pay Messi a big part of his yearly wage for 2 more years, that's almost 100-200m on Messi alone, I don't know the exact sums or how they were structured, but... they must be huge payments, even Laporta hinted at this himself. Then add Suarez, then add Busi, Pique, Alba, the contract of De Jong... you can get to pretty crazy sums inherited from Bartomeu.
This is the only logical explanation of the bloated wage bill and why we can't overcome the La Liga FFP even years after Bartomeu. The crook signed deferrals with the players during covid to delay the payments for 2-3 seasons and place the burden and those insane wages on the next board.