Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
But you need to know your going to have the money to pay the wages whilst the player is at the club, that's why wages always figure in our transfer budget, so when we have had a 30 or 40 million to spend that means one player worth 10-15 million.
Ozils wages would have been partially offset by the players we got rid off and thus got off the pay roll.