As he is one of our scouts tasked with finding a striker I would think that he is quite well informed as to what we can afford and what others are earning. His mispronunciation of names does not come into it. Unlike most who post on here he doesn't claim to be perfect in everything.
When the question of us signing a striker came up on Radio Sussex during the commentary of a game Warren Aspinall quoted that figure as to why we couldn't sign a prolific striker like Beckford. As he works for the club I would assume that he knows and wouldn't quote something he knew to be...
Beckford is getting £40k per week and I would assume Rhodes will be on a good wage with Blackburns parachute payments Emnes probably on a good wage so if you take out the high earners what do you have left that possibly earn about the same as CMS & Barnes and how many of them have scored more...