Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
The cost of players have never been more public than they are today. You could do this analysis with almost any source and it works just as well. It's a simple analysis that we all know is true, instinctively, even without mathematical proof.
Your assertion that what a club can offer is more important than the cost of players is blatantly not true. If it were the lesser teams like West Brom would be winning the league more often and the richest three teams wouldn't have such dominance over the last 13 years since financial doping arrived.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Our highest paid player ever was Payet on 95k a week, which only lasted a short while. We can't afford to pay more because we would break FFP rule. Carroll broke our transfer record and he's on 70k a week.
Özil's wage alone would find our entire central midfield.