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David Gold on Twitter in reaction to West Sham fans saying is Austin such s bargain if he's on £100k a week. Points a different slant on it

To a degree his wages are immaterial if you are relegation candidates.  If he scores say 10-15 goals and is instrumental in keeping a slipping Soton up, then you could just as easily say he was the signing that guaranteed the 100m quid revenue next season!!  It's the same for teams at the top of the Championship.  Teams there are buying players on big wages, 30k+ per week because the reward from promotion far outweighs the outlay.  If it doesn't work, then you sell or add to it to give it another go, aka Boro and Derby!!

Austin will essentially cost Southamton around 10m this season including transfer fee, signing on fee and wages, isn't that what you paid for Rondon???

I understand it was 12m for Rondon....... I believe we're paying him as well?!
There's also the point that, if you get a decent player on a decent contract he's an asset that you can maybe sell and recoup some dosh, so that needs to be factored in to the equation too.