Hasn’t the last 10 years coincided with obscene amounts of Pl TV money also, to the point when PL mid table clubs were gate crashing the top 10-20 clubs with the highest annual revenue in world football. For example
Leicester,
Leeds,
West Ham
Everton
Newcastle
For season 21/22
the changing landscape of clubs receiving big offers from former powerhouses of world football that they now have bigger budgets than, also means they are better equip to reject bids.