just goes to the show the ridiculous wages we pay for lads to come to the club. And then when they turn out rubbish we cannot get rid. When oh when will we ever learn.
We've always been one of the league's higher payers, which is fine when you sign quality. When you keep signing low quality players and pay
them the higher wages, it then becomes a problem.
Spurs and Arsenal have lower top salary caps than us and I'd rather not see us paying out extra to attract players, just because we don't have 'the chance to live in London' to offer them. Likewise, with free transfers. There's a reason(s) most players are free, so we shouldn't be paying them larger signing on fees and/or salaries than we would if we'd have 'bought' them, and higher than other 'better' players in the squad.
We should be benefiting from the saving on the fee, or at least feeling the bulk of the benefit, not handing it to the player, especially those who were wouldn't have given that much to if they'd not been a 'free'.
Other players don't take into consideration a player was 'free' when looking enviously at a lesser player earning more than them.
