But what about the net spend?

[hktoffee]

Lennon would be above 5m. Robles closer to 10m.

No way he has one year left in his contract.

 

[Caolam]

We are spending far too much on nets. Surely a set of nets should only cost a couple of hundred quid.

 

[Titus Bramble]

What's our net spend now lids?

 

[Piijt]

So we've sold Lukaku and had the audacity to spend the money...
'''Tis a strange old world. We were ripped to shreds for not spending the Arteta money...

 

[bluekangaroo]

We'll recoup the Sigurdsson money by selling Ross, McCarthy, Lennon and Robles!

20, 20, 3, 2!

 

[4737carlin]

The net spend thing has been blown out of the water, no matter what it is now this window has been 100% great, even if we flog a load of deadwood and claw a lot of it back.

 

[Thomasc]

The only 3 positions we have not upgraded on with the players who have either left or been injured in those positions are CB, RB and of course CF.

RB - Hardly surprising, we are not going to go out and blow a load of dough on a player who will not get a game when Seamus is back.
CB - Injury to Mori threw things off track IMO but it looks like we will sign a replacement for him before the end of the window.
CF - We need another striker as currently we only have Sandro and Rooney who looks better playing off the striker.

 

[Baines' left foot]

We still need a striker and a defender as a minimum, so I'd expect the 'net' spend to go up to around £100m, which I don't think it excessive for a club with our aspirations.

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

Summer transfer spend so far:

£98M

Summer sales so far:

£108M

Cute face palm alert!

 

[Kaiser Soysauce]

How can a thread be visible without the OP?

I've just put him on ignore to test that I was correct, and hey presto the thread disappears.

Somehow, it will be Everton's fault.

 

[blue4eva77]

Martinez left us with a squad that we've needed to spend £200m fixing

Which has/will be financed by players sold, that Martinez bought. Martinez even gave Stones his debut if I recall.

Lukaku and Stones. There's a 140 million right off the bat.

McCarthy will be next and that'll be 160.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Why would you do this?

I noticed Matt had started posting again and thought he'd like to contribute to the debate.

 

[chippy1722]

The most important position we needed to spend big was CF, so hopefully we have a big wedge put away for that.

 

[messymascot]

Still need LCB, LB, ST. Maybe a left footed winger as well. Shift McCarthy, Barkley, Lennon, Robles, Niasse and Garbutt. Them 6 could bring in about £55 million. I'm not bothered if we have positive or negative net spent as long as when the window closes we are strong enough to go on 4 fronts.

 

[Ihaters]

You would expect a massive net spend this year tbf

http://uk.businessinsider.com/total...5/#8-southampton-1276-million-finished-8th-13

It's great to see it happening though isn't it?
Well done the board for spending the wedge and not keeping it.