i think i remember it briefly. there was this pic with best paying clubs in terms of salaries or something like that and then... i have no clue what then tbh

its probably in the financial thread so will look it up if i find time
but we kinda are paying heavy wages. we just got Can for 5M a year, which is bound to set out a chain reaction and give raises to some others like Pjanic, Cuadrado or AS. and we still arent done with signings.
but my point in the posts above is, Higuains annual cost on the books is ridiculous due to 90M fee + 7.5M net wages yearly. if you add another such heavy cost to the books, like SMS (say 100M-120M + 4M-5M annual wages net), well, im not gonna say we cant do that (i dont know if we can or not), but im pretty confident we wont take on such financial commitments. which is why i think both Higgy and SMS are not happening here, based on what ive read from people here that know far more than me about these financial details