No alarm switch, just my hunch of how things will go.
It's been well documented how we've cut wages, to continue to do so would seem to care not for progress but purely for profit and I'm leaning more to believing the latter is foremost in our owners minds.
How much did we wage cut last season Luke?
I am honest in saying (or at least believing) that Maxi/Kuyt/Bellamy/Cole/Aqualani vs. Suarez (New Deal = More Wages) Agger (New Deal = More Wages) Skrtel (New Deal = More Wages) + the additions of Allen/Borini/Sturridge/Coutinho was not cost cutting, more like a swap.
How much are the new guys making? How much does Luis make now? 100k/week? 110k/week? thing is nobody really seems to have numbers on either side of the arguemnt do they?
So how much did we save last season on wages?
Now at the end of last season all we did was let Carra retire/Skrtel and Coates let go and all we did was bring in Toure then I will jump on the bandwagon with you.
The facts say that this window the (60k/week is what we are hearing for Toure) there is a 40k/week savings with the window opening in 33 days.
There is no signs that they are continuing to cut costs (Carra retiring was going to happen, FSG did not force it)
The high costs older players are effectively gone now, replaced by what I think are younger and more vibarant group.
At the end of the day all that matters is results on the pitch...not what it costs to get there.
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