This is because that relegation pressure flows through into a desperate desire to pay however much that rare talent that might keep you up, or promote you, can count up to.
This is nonsense. It costs money to stay in the Premier League it costs more to take a run at the EPL from the lower leagues. For the record nobody is paying whatever a player wants under the top 3 and nobody below that is buying players at any cost. Liverpool did once with a certain player that turned out to be worthless and it wouldn't ever be allowed to happen again.
If you want to take a run at the Champion's League that's a different story because you suddenly *will* meet teams like Barca where no wage or price restraint applies and nobody can compete with them even though they are within the terms of the FFP regs.
Also not for nothing but Labour are centrist, and they took a turn to the right of centrist back there at one point.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
