Iceman10
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I'd forgotten about the Özil salary as financial albatross take. Seemed possible at one time, but well....
I don't see this as a great counterargument. Wages off the books increases the transfer budget, no matter how much we have spent. As it is we had to be imaginative with deferred payments, but those will have to be paid down the line.
Josh Kroenke himself made the point about us being a club paying CL wages while stuck in the EL (for now). If it comes to next summer and we haven't qualified for the CL again I wouldn't rule out the "financial albatross" argument anyway.
There are reasons why Liverpool and Sp**s have leapfrogged us (for now), and we have to learn from them (imo). At minimum we have to make progress with getting Mkhi off our books asap.
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