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Player Valuation: £20m
Now that we've had time to reflect on the summer dealings I thought I would have a look at what the net spend facts came out as, to try and give a fair assessment. Using the figures from this site:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/eve...29/plus/0?saison_id=2017&pos=&detailpos=&w_s=
Since Moshiri arrived at the club in Feb 2016 we have spent a total of just under £220m. The money we earned back in sales has been £151m and the total 'net spend' in that time is £68.3m. Since the January transfer window we have spent £170m and got back £101m from sales giving a net spend of just under £70m. And since the Summer we have spent £142m, with just under £97m from sales giving a net spend of just under £46m.
Obviously that doesn't tell the full picture and in the interest of fairness, if the Barkley sale had gone through, then you can add £35m to each of those sales figures which would bring the net spend down to £33.3m overall, £34.6m since January and over the summer just £10.7m. I think what this tells us is that those who claimed that we had broke even since Moshiri's arrival were simply wrong. However, the figures also highlight that we do not have money to burn and we still have to tread carefully with transfers. Given that Moshiri has a personal wealth of just around £1.5bn, compared to Sheikh Mansours £20bn, those expecting us to spend in the manner of Man City are deluding themselves.
What Moshiri has done since he has come in is to have a long term plan both on and off the pitch which includes getting us a new stadium, focusing on youth development, and distributing extra funds for wages and to pay off other things such as the interest free loan, bringing in Koeman and getting rid of Martinez. All of this money is not accounted for when looking at net spend and therefore to make out we are no further on now we have Moshiri instead of just Kenwright seems very short sighted and unfair. Having said that, the net spend figures don't exactly scream out that we are now able to compete with the likes of Man City and Chelsea either and despite the TV money being available, it's clear that Moshiri is having to manage the finances in a sensible manner and still cannot bankroll us in to the top 4 like Sheikh Mansour or Roman Abramovic did.
The fact that we didn't bring in a suitable striker after selling Lukaku, yet spent £40m+ on Sigurdsson suggests to me a fault with the transfer dealings by Koeman and Walsh rather than Moshiri. Moshiri provided the funds to spend £40m on a single player and Koeman and Walsh chose to spend it on a player in a position we had suitable cover for already.
Good post
But to me he can spend whatever he likes but it's a waste of money now as we didn't get a striker. Big mistake. Struggle to even finish top 7. Last year we were 7th with Rom. We look weaker in my eyes








