[madsteve]

When we talk about spending more money, I presume that people mean increasing the wage budget rather than giving other clubs the money in transfer fees.

Statistically, the thing that makes the most difference is the wage budget. You get the odd exception like Burnley but 80% of team finish within three places of where they stand in a table of wage budgets. The key is to get fees for players when they leave and invest the money into wages for better players.

We face a difficult decision with Westwood during the next two transfer windows. Do we cash in & take possibly £4m or do we keep him for another season & lose him for nothing? Clearly we have to cash in & use the money to reinvest in the wage budget. Certainly we don't want to waste it on transfer fees.

For me, we lost money on Antonio because of SG's haste to move him on & there is a danger that we lose Madine for nothing when under contract he would be worth £500k.