Quote Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann View Post
£70m "high margin revenue" does not equate to £70m spending money, unless you're running a 100% margin and your costs are zero.

Moreover, the Ozil transfer cost £42.5m, plus £7.28m wages in this financial year, plus signing-on fee, bonuses and image rights (cost unknown).

We also spent £5,485,961 in agents fees for the period Oct 12 to Sep 13.

I don't know how much actual money we had to spend last summer, but this is to illustrate that buying players at the Ozil level is significantly more expensive and involved than just subtracting 2 big black tabloid numbers from each other.
Yeah but we also culled a lot of the squad thus saving wages, we've also got rid of a lot of big salaries over the years.