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Originally Posted by devo22
nah they actually had net spending of about €50m. And that doesn't include Schneiderlin, who was signed in January.
EDIT: according to Transfermarkt:
+ Sigurdsson - £44.5m
+ Keane - £25.6m
+ Pickford - £25.6m
+ Klaassen - £24.3m
+ Vlasic - £9.7m
+ Onyekuru - £7.2m
+ Ramirez - £5.4m
+ Rooney - free
+ Martina - free
- Lukaku - £76.2m
- Deulofeu - £10.8m
- Cleverley - £8.4m
- Barry - £1.0m
- McGeady - £260k
Total expenditures - £142.3m
Total income - £96.6m
Total net spend - £45.7m
Plus Schneiderlin (£20.6m) and Lookman (£7.9m) in January, and let's not forget that Rooneys wages are enormous. They've spent ####loads of money since Moshiri took over, and Lukaku going the other way doesn't negate that.
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It's just such a bad collection of buys
Their entire attack last year was built around Lukaku and to a lesser extent Barkley, and Barkley either leaves for free in the summer or cut price in January
None of those players they bought were replacing those goals, Keane and Pickford are probably good long term, but outside of that the only thing the outfield players have in common is zero pace
Sandro, Rooney, and Gylfi all basically play the same position as well
There hasn't been a team spending this since man city first got their oil money
I'm not surprised they can't find a manager, it's not an appealing jobeith that squad, they will obviously have to sell off to buy, and the values will have plummeted
That's a 2 year project to turn them around and get them back tongue top half