@MoutsGoat i replied in other thread, but I didn't realise it was the replacement thread, that I was quoted on.
Anyhow my thoughts on money spent = league position is....
The wage table alone blows out the water the claims of wage bills having ANY impact on league placing.
It does and just talking about what's been spent doesn't wash either, for example I guarentee I could vault some of Martinez' biggest fans from the RS thread on forum 4 saying they've wasted so much money on crap signings (I 100% agree) but if you then return to the money spent table, they'd say 'yeah but we haven't spent what Liverpool have'
So they want it both ways, wanna hammer Liverpool for buying, in the main, way overpriced players and then to defend Martinez they'll say, 'yeah but look at what they've spent'
The other argument is the market value of our current squad, which I think is a fairer way to look at it, for example Barkley, Stones, Deulofeu and Lukaku cost Everton £2m pound more than what Benteke cost, but the moneyball folk amoungst us, where £ spent = points gained would fail to knowledge that sort of sense.