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Summer Transfer Window 2017

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That... wasn't an opinion. That was maths.

We may have spent over £100m on three players, but that is offset by money coming in for others. So we haven't really spent it. If Barkley goes I believe we're literally back to zero, despite TV money, whereas the likes of West Brom have thus far spent £40m and have consistently spent over many seasons.

As of this moment, we've spent around £30m with a likely outgoing of £30m to nullify it. That's not an opinion.

Well 1st of all, weve spent

Pickford - £30m
Klaassen - £25m
Keane - £30m
Onyekuru - £7m
Sandro - £5m
Bowler - £4m
Martina - Free
Gibson - £6m
Sigurdsson - £45m
= £152m

Sold

Lukaku - £90m + Rooney
Cleverly - £8m
Deulofeu - £10m
McGeady - £1m
Barry - undisclosed, let's say £1m
Kone - Free
McAleny - Free

=£110

That makes £42m spend...

Barkley looks like he will probably go, maybe we get £30m max, but we are still to sign Vlasic (£8m) and still hopeful of signing a striker (you would imagine £30m given the current going rate) and potentially a CB (let's be conservative and say £15m)...

At the end of the window, even with Barkley gone, that would still mean a spend of £65m if all the maybes become reality. Hardly breaking even, and that's before you factor in wages.

And just because it's a bug bear of mine anyway, why would breaking even, or God forbid, a negative net spend, be a bad thing anyway? If you can improve the team without spending fortunes each year, surely that is the thing to do?

Net spend means absolutely nothing, unless the team is not improved with your dealings.
 


Well 1st of all, weve spent

Pickford - £30m
Klaassen - £25m
Keane - £30m
Onyekuru - £7m
Sandro - £5m
Bowler - £4m
Martina - Free
Gibson - £6m
Sigurdsson - £45m
= £152m

Sold

Lukaku - £90m + Rooney
Cleverly - £8m
Deulofeu - £10m
McGeady - £1m
Barry - undisclosed, let's say £1m
Kone - Free
McAleny - Free

=£110

That makes £42m spend...

Barkley looks like he will probably go, maybe we get £30m max, but we are still to sign Vlasic (£8m) and still hopeful of signing a striker (you would imagine £30m given the current going rate) and potentially a CB (let's be conservative and say £15m)...

At the end of the window, even with Barkley gone, that would still mean a spend of £65m if all the maybes become reality. Hardly breaking even, and that's before you factor in wages.

And just because it's a bug bear of mine anyway, why would breaking even, or God forbid, a negative net spend, be a bad thing anyway? If you can improve the team without spending fortunes each year, surely that is the thing to do?

Net spend means absolutely nothing, unless the team is not improved with your dealings.

It'd be a bad thing because we are clearly in need of players in certain areas and we aren't spending to bring them in. Net spend indicates ambition - you can't be ambitious by constantly buying to sell and then selling to buy. Ambition means actual investment.

Last summer was poor, but I was willing to excuse it because Walsh was new in and Moshiri perhaps wanted to see the lie of the land and give time for a proper team to bring players in. However, if we leave this window having gutted our attack and not spent actual money to improve us, then that confirms Moshiri as something for me, and that is an upper class Kenwright - a sell to buy merchant with the ability to use an overdraft - and that would be entirely justified, given even counter-arguments like "oh but the stadium" are just plans on paper at this point.
 

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