Total value yes but I think you will find that transfer budgets and wage budgets are different. Wage budgets are usually a %age of overall income and transfers are on top. Like if we could sign Messi for free we wouldn’t probably be able to do it because his wage demands would be circa €50 mil pa that’s approx 1/3 our turn over but if we could sign him at 60 mil and for €15 mil per an it would be feastable
But it all comes from the same source I.e. revenue. Same way, the fee we get for him will be, same way what we pay him comes from from revenue. Ultimate ones a subtraction from revenue the other an addition, which is why I’m saying he is cost neutral via a small profit.