JoH said:
True enough Jasper but didn't we recoup some money on sales of Clucas and Messa?
What did we pay for Bony second time round cant remember?
We had a fee for Messa and lost 2.5M Clucas sale plus what we got for Kingsleigh cost us another 5M so not too bad. we also lost a million here and there on others but are far out shadowed by massive profits on Siggy, Lorriette, Cork, Shelvey, Allen, Davies, to name but a few.
The 15M lost on Borja is not so bad, the capital expenditure is lost, but his running costs have only set us back 6 months in wages, Carroll was 4.5M, Ayew, nothing as we bought him back for 2M less than we sold him and he has been loaned out for 12 months and is now our top scorer, MacKay and John have cost next to FA not on great wages so no loss there.
Nordfelt 3 years of waste and was a bad buy but wouldn't have broke the bank.
The good news, We have taken 3 good loan players, we have kept Celina, Ayew and VDH and not lost our good CB's FB's plus Byers, Grimes, Naughton and have adequate back up players like Routledge, Dyer and Fulton.
In short I think this transfer window has been our best in 5 years