BIG Budget, big players, big prizes. Isn’t that how football works in the era of the oligarch and the Emirati?
Sadly, it usually is. If your players drive to work in Ford Fiestas whilst theirs are rocking Mercs, you’ ll probably be eating dust by May.
Statistics don’t lie. List any division’s clubs in order of wages paid and the result will invariably look very similar to the final league table.
In last season’s Premier League, the seven biggest spenders took the top seven spots. Two of the three poorest – Hull and Middlesbrough – went down.
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