Ah well then I did misunderstood apparently.
But in the technical side of things, I believe that salaries and transfer fees are actually treated differently I think?
Meaning that higher salaries are preferred to higher transfer fees. At least for the clubs like us where the ratio between salary-costs and revenue is as low as it is.
In terms of total ownership cost - true, often the difference is smaller than the media outlets headlines let you do believe.
I mean some idiots still believe that Haaland cost 60 mil for ManCity. For him all the other aspects (massive signing fee, massive agent fee, massive salaries) obviously have made him 3x as expensive as noted

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