The 'book's will tell you different about how much we blew. The net spend tables in the last few years as well. You've clearly fallen in to that narrative of spending half a billion.
The point I would make is that there should be other punishments available. They opted for a sporting punishment for a non-sporting offence. They inferred that we had a sporting advantage, but this could not be quantified. Similarly, the 10 points was both extremely disproportionate (IE 9 points for Portsmouth going in to administration) and did not seem fair in the face of other offences that avoided a points deduction. Such as the scab 6 and Tevez.
That's before you even get to City or Chelsea.
The fact is we could have had a fine, or transfer embargo, for example.
They haven't taken in to consideration other things such as loss of income from the likes of USM because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, oh, and the small matter of building a stadium.
The PL rules were full of holes anyway. As pointed out by the likes of Andy Burnham.
The club have no backbone.