The net spend of Newcastle is a complete irrelevance though. The fact is, in one transfer window you traded and brought in a set of players on a financial plain that is on a COMPLETELY different level to what just about everyone else in this division barring Villa could possibly afford. Now that...
Thats the difference isn't it ?
You see Solly or Knocky or any one of our midfielders give it away and they'll bust a gut to get it back. Johnson though, lost the ball, could see Atsu had run off him, could see he was totally unmarked in the box, and yet made ZERO effort to mark him or cut out...