sheffielder
Welcome Positive Nigel
Also, there's a distinction to be made between wage bill and actual budget.
Wage bill includes all those that were already at the club, most signed by Clough.
Budget of course being what was spent on new players wages and fees.
I would say McCabe has it about right when he says the wage bill was the biggest in the division. I don't think the budget was, but it'll have been up there with the wages we paid Hammond, Sammon, Edgar, Woolford, Sharp, the fee for Sharp and then Baptiste. It was certainly enough to see improvement on 5th.
A lot of people seem to be getting mixed up between the two when in reality they're very different.
We could have paid peanuts for all 5 new signings and we'd have probably still had a wage bill well up there. Which is why it was confusing to see McCabe trying to use that to justify anything at all to do with the 15/16 spending.
Sorry, can you explain to me the difference between wage bill and budget and why the wage bill is not part of the budget?