No it isn't.
I never mentioned transfer fees, that has always been there and, just as a wee reminder, Man City were doing it before anyone else with the first three million pound transfers in Francis, Daly and Reeves, in case you'd conveniently forgotten. Or in the case of plenty on here, never knew anyway.
So, yes 'big clubs' spend big on transfers, as does everyone. It's the ability to offer unrestricted wages by club's that are ran by oil emirates that would be the problem.
They have a literally bottomless pit that no one else can compete with, so if it is allowed to be unrestricted there will only be two clubs left competing, as they'll be offering every decent player double the money that can be offered elsewhere by anyone else.
So no, it's not always been the ****ing same.