The Bitter Truth?

[Power n Glory]

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.

Impossible. Last season we bought Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud and Monreal for that fee. Does that mean we had £120m - £160m to spend in the year? And that's before the sponsorship announcement. What about the season we bought Ox, Gervinho, Arteta, Merts, Santos, Jenkinson and Park? That's got to be over £200m. It can't be done that way. How do other clubs manage? How were Spurs able to spend £100m from the bail money and find the wages for those players as well? This can't be the way.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Impossible. Last season we bought Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud and Monreal for that fee. Does that mean we had £120m - £160m to spend in the year? And that's before the sponsorship announcement. What about the season we bought Ox, Gervinho, Arteta, Merts, Santos, Jenkinson and Park? That's got to be over £200m. It can't be done that way. How do other clubs manage? How were Spurs able to spend £100m from the bail money and find the wages for those players as well? This can't be the way.

The players you have mentioned, Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud offset by the sale and wages off the books for Song and Van Persie....but even then our wage bill would have skyrocketed with 130k a week for Podolski.
Arteta, Gervinho, Santos, Mertesacker etc - Eboue, Clichy, Nasri, Fabregas

[Power n Glory]

The players you have mentioned, Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud offset by the sale and wages off the books for Song and Van Persie....but even then our wage bill would have skyrocketed with 130k a week for Podolski.
Arteta, Gervinho, Santos, Mertesacker etc - Eboue, Clichy, Nasri, Fabregas

That's not right because our wage bill decreased in 2013. There is no way it works like that because that would mean we’ve had £100m to £150m to spend in some seasons.