The thing with salary is, that they won't "ask" for more money. They just take it after hiring.
The "Hiring Wage" is just a straight up lie/useless stat.
At the moment the wage gets doubled or even more sometimes. Hard to work with this.
I also believe that the stats should not drop when you hire them. Why bother showing the stats if you just drop them randomly when the player gets hired? What next? Market players get stat drops too?