The combined fees of Burrows, Cooper and Moore were less than what we sold Osula for with £1mil left over. Then there's the loan fees for Rak-Sakyi, Gilchrist and Souttar, all funded by the sales of Bogle and Traore.
We freed up lots of wages with the released players and players sold, and those who remained had relegation paycuts written into their contracts, so the wage bill isn't entirely funded by parachute payments.
It's standard, lazy cliched thinking. Team comes down from the Premier League. They are rich and funded by parachute payments. The permanent players we brought in won't be on anything like what the likes of Baldock, Basham, Egan, Norwood, Stevens and McBurnie etc were all on.