arsene wengers coat wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:Bear, you're judging quality purely based on size of transfer fee, which is ridiculous. Wes Hoolahan was one of the best players in the league last season, cost nothing. If we'd have signed Johnson in Jan for 200k, would he have been a better quality player than he is now when we signed him for free?
To be fair, a good barometer of quality is wage demands. Thats why often teams with biggest player wage budgets (not necessarily transfer budgets) finish higher.
However, players who can demand bigger wages also require bigger transfer fees. It's not totally unrelated.
That is true, which is why I was talking about transfer fees