Wages not transfer fees (net or gross) is the proper dick measuring contest gents.
Historically finishing position is more correlated with wage bill rather than transfer fee - which is an arbitrary measure IMO.
Leicester the outlier on a 20+ year time scale.
Utd have 5 players on over 200k per week - Pogba, Zlatan, De Gea, Rooney, Schweinsteger.
We have 4 players on over 100k per week - Sturridge, Milner, Henderson, Firminho.
One Schweinsteger earns more a week than Can, Lallana and Coutinho combined.
Pressure on for Utd, with a total wage billl like that anything apart from top 2 and solid title challenge is a complete and utter failure.