BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
It's hard to disagree with that logic and i'm not surprised that players or their agents use that line to try and as much money as they can. I guess it just shows how brilliant a negotiator Levy is that he somehow manages to get top dollar when we sell players AND get away with paying our players less than our competitors do. Even clubs further down the table than us pay some of their players higher wages than we do. I'm not being critical but if I was Eriksen I would absolutely say to Levy "you'd ask for £100m for me in the transfer window? Then I want £200k a week or bloody close to it."
Hopefully Eriksen will stay and he will become our 2nd highest player after Kane.
I guess our counter to that is that while a club like Palace may pay Zaha, or historically Benteke, something akin to what a good striker would get with Spurs, the rest of their players aren't as close to their top players wages wise. So there is more of a gap...with us even our core role players will be on relatively decent money and reasonably close to our best, relative to the mid table clubs that may splash on one big star.