The confusing part for me is why they think City are paying huge extra sums in wages and transfers. Our reported fees and wage bill matches our accounts, and they're both high enough.
Do they think Phillips was a bargain, or that we actually paid more than £100m for Grealish?
The smaller squad means that wages per player can be higher than Liverpool, so who would we need to be paying more? Is there a club that wants to pay Cancelo £400k a week, but he's only staying with us because we're paying him more than that under the table? It makes literally no sense.
We've got one of the biggest budgets in football, have done really well with recruitment under Pep, and with a smaller squad can pay wages that match almost all other clubs. Given we're also the most successful team in the most high profile league, with a manager that most consider the best in the world, where exactly is the need to be hiding hundreds of millions extra in payments?