Manchester City will not offer Exeter extra money from Saturday's third-round FA Cup tie. The financially troubled League One club this week revealed they had asked the Premier League club for a greater proportion of the gate receipts as a statement of solidarity. Exeter, whose supporters' trust is the club's majority shareholder, will take 8,000 fans to a sold-out Etihad Stadium to face the seven-time FA Cup winners.
But €50 million in 2025 is a lot different from €100 million in 2015, and money spent by PSG is a lot different from money spent by, say, Marseille or Mallorca. In an era where nearly every league and UEFA have spending rules pegged to a certain percentage of team revenue, perhaps there's a better way to compare transfer spending -- across teams and across eras.
