So the information I could find on our transfer activity
OutSuarez £75M (Disclosed)
Agger £3M (Disclosed)
Kelly Undisclosed - reported fee £1.5M
Reina Undisclosed - reported fee £2M
Robinson Undisclosed - reported fee £1M
Alberto Undisclosed - reported fee £1M
Aspas Undisclosed - no fee info available
Coady Undisclosed - no fee info available
Ibe Undisclosed - no fee info available
Ilori Undisclosed - no fee info available
Teixeira Undisclosed - no fee info available
Wisdom Undisclosed - no fee info available
Total £82.5M Disclosed feesInBalotelli £16M (Disclosed)
Can £8M (Disclosed)
Lallana £25M (Disclosed)
Lambert £4M (Disclosed)
Lovren £20M (Disclosed)
Manquillo (Loan) Undisclosed - no fee info available
Markovic £20M (Disclosed)
Moreno £12M (Disclosed)
Origi £10M
Total £115M DisclosedSo as you can see based on disclosed fees we have a net spend of £32.5M, but obviously this is not counting the undisclosed fees for loan deals.
For our net spend to be £0, it would essentially require the remaining undisclosed loan deals with no reported values (Aspas, Coady, Ibe, Ilori, Teixeira, Wisdom) to total £32.5M. I find that highly unlikely. Thats an average loan fee for each of those of nearly £5.5M each.
I think Sky are spinning the numbers to make a good story.
If you assume that Aspas, Coady, Ibe, Ilori, Teixeira, and Wisdom all went on loan for around £1M, max. The good guess at the net spend would be £26.5M (+-10%).
In my opinion that equates to a successful transfer window.