I was tidying up one of my spreadsheets and it looks as if spudz' squad cost more than our's. I need to go back in and check the figures, but if true that is a bit worrying. It can be time consuming to come up with the most accurate totals given a lot of fees are reported/undisclosed etc. But with Berbatov £10.9m, Bent £16.5m, Modric £16.5m, Bentley £15m and a fair few players of the same sort of prices as a lot of our players, then it was always going to be close. Gomes was pretty pricey, Hutton and Bale not cheap and there are a fair few others costing around the £7m mark including the recent acquisition of Dos Santos.
If Kaboul and Malbranque leave it may swing back the other way, if they sign Arshavin and we have to sell before we can buy then we could end up with them starting the season with a more costly squad than our's for the first time in a long time if not ever.
Anyone wants to do the maths then feel free, I don't have the time now so when I will is uncertain.