I'm aware that Stones was sold the previous summer (I'm not that senile yet) but the money for his sale wasn't really spent. It's true they bought that lump Williams, but at £12m he was just a small bite of the Stones money. The real replacement for Stones was Keane - bought this summer. But...
People are banging about the £140m but most of that was from the sale of Stones and Lukaku - their net spend was only about £20. Our net spend was more than that.
They certainly should be doing better than 18th but they're not really the big spenders everyone says they are