Where do you get the idea the club don't pay? You think Rossi and Taylor came here for peanuts? You think Krishna wasn't one of the best paid forwards in the league inside a cap?
Last season our squad salary bill was similar to Brisbane and Adelaide and way ahead of Central Coast and Newcastle, despite not using the marquee spot because the FFA are fudgeing morons.
We were never going to match the Perth cap cheats, Sydney or Victory because the other sides in the league just aren't - City will probably pay out more for a sharkter squad simply because they have the City name. Other than that though here is no evidence other than the ramblings of a man who was engineering his exit and trying to hide his lack of integrity to say our squad investment is less than the other 6 sides in the league (chucked WU in there).
No, I didn't clarify - I mean lack of willingness to invest because of our situation. Until that's sorted, we can't put our best foot forward.
The 1 mill fine won't help things either.
The fine v TV money thing is just semantics - if anything, that is even more encouragement to spend less of the cap to lessen the burden of the fine.