Stuilse – That is where you are missing the point, I never said paying the most money is the reason for being successful, that would be stating that if you paid Sunday league players £1M a week they would win the league, that would be moronic.
Yes the reason for the correlation is that the best players get the best wages, so if the team with the highest wgaes, so therefore has the best players, is under-performing to such an extent do we then not need to look at other areas, such as the manager, tactics etc?