Quote Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa View Post
Ask any City fan if they thought Mackay would get them promoted, I think most would have said very likely, to probable. It's always a gamble but we stood a good chance.

If you look at Boro, Wolves, Fulham, Reading, Derby, Leeds etc who have all spent 15-50m this summer, what we're doing is incredible. I think most thought play-offs would be tough but just about possible. Boro, Wolves, Fulham, Wednesday etc have bought one player (or near enough) for the cost of us rebuilding a team over the summer and let's not even discuss wages! Villa are paying Terry 60k a week, and they have about 10 players on about 40-50k. Henri Lansbury quadrupled his Forest wage to go to Villa. Quadrupled!
No doubt Grabban is on 30k

I'd not be scared to put my money where my mouth is with Ledley being on 20-30k plus either.

We have by all accounts, rid ourselves of those kinds of earners.

Let's say we have the 10th biggest wage budget in the league (anyone care to agree disagree)

We have also been outspent by more than enough teams to put us outside the top 6.

Yet here we are.