Why do people keep saying this? It's widely known that our income is significantly less than that of the 5 other teams in the top 6 hence we pay less wages.To be fair mate, unless we address our stifling wage structure and move with the times it will be a difficult summer. Poch has miraculously moulded a team of A* players on B+ wages. It's not just the mirror, pretty much every paper and pundit, including ex Spurs, are saying the same thing
We also pay higher wages than those below us. I could understand this argument if teams below us were paying higher wages than us.
One problem is some people (not saying this is you) will see Palace paying Zaha 110 a week and then say "if they can why can't we...". I won't bother explaining the reason why that's the fucking stupidest argument on the world because it'd be a waste of effort.
We are currently punching above our weight from a financial point of view. If we could afford to pay the likes of Rose and Walker more money to make them stay I'm sure we would/will.