Yep, that’s a fair point. Of course, in purely financial terms, the £80m expenditure is real - cash has left the club; whereas the increase in values of the old guard are paper increases, only real if/when the player(s) are sold for those increased values.
But, your underlying point is valid.
What price? About £80m - to bring in new players who are largely bench-warmers atm. It is, as you say, brilliant that so many from the Championship team have upped their game, but I do wonder whether we could have provided the competition for places that has presumably played some part in the...