Portsmouth, Leeds, Southampton, Bradford, Darlington, Luton fans might disagree with you there, infact we tried throwing money at it in 93 remember? and we paid for it for the next 17 years pretty much!
Blackpool, West Brom, Dag & Redbridge, Everton, get success without throwing money at it, unless you only define success as winning the champions league...
You can't spend above your means. Amazing how many people still don't get this.
In Chelsea and Man City you've picked probably the only two clubs in the 92 (maybe QPR apart) who can throw money at it without worrying about the real world. Wigan are in a false position everyone knows that and when they finally drop out of the top flight they'll settle back on down to the third tier where they belong (a la reading)
If someone threw £20m at our club it'd be fun for a while but when the dust settles and the money runs out (quickly) we're still a club with 8,000 fans paying 23 times a season however you want to look at it
Ardiles sums it up better than I can
some of those you mention have spent alot of dosh.of course if someone was to throw money at it i wouldn't want them to fuck off and leave us in the shit.
chelsea and man city would be fucked if their owners ditched them too.