Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
It's the one off wages, if you sign a player of 60 million + that player then wants wages of 250-300k a week and then the other players think why am i not on that, their agents start pushing for contract negotiations or trying to tout them elsewhere....it's what's called a domino effect
Is there any evidence to support that theory? Ozil is on 200+ supposedly. You could say that has led to Alexis wanting similar, but of course he's our star player and he can get that anywhere (a lot more in fact). Who else can though? You have to be able to back up your claims with a bit of talent and the certainty somebody else out there wants to pay you what you are asking. Hasn't our problem been we couldn't get rid of the dross we were overpaying?