If I remember correctly then you got paid for Mikel 1mil more than you had paid Lyn for him. Would be interresting if you went a bit further back in time, to the times of your Taibis, Barthez, Howards and Carrolls and Verons. And I think you forgot both Ben Foster (1mil).
Would also be nice to get the amount SAF paid for those players he bought before 2004/2005 and has since sold.
Nah, we were meant to pay Lyn 4 million, ended up paying nothing, and recieved 12 million. I might be wrong about the paying nothing, but I don't think we paid 4 million.
Ben Foster I did indeed miss. I thought he was signed in the year before Benitez got here.
I will make a post later about his signings before Benitez. Obviously the big misstep was Veron, but we still got about 15 million back for him, and he played well in the Champions League. Other qualiting signings like Ferdinand, Rooney etc won us a lot. Obviously Beckham, Giggs, Scholes, two Nevilles, Butt were very cheap and won us a lot though. Something like that is as much down to luck as it is coaching.