Football cubs, well most of them, have a limited amount of money to pay their bills and also to spend. Saying net spend is bollocks, is well bollocks.
If you get paid every week or month, assuming you work - Then you pay your bills, and you spend, and you balance it all up, otherwise you accumulate loads of debt, and go bankrupt. Liverpool bought Allison and Van Dijk, using the Coutinho money. We could not have bought both, unless he went.
Unlike UTD, who can pay players 500k a week for scoring 1 league goal this season, or paying copious amounts of money to players like Ibrahimovic, Di Maria, or other money chasing ‘stars’, Liverpool simply have to balance their books.
Saying net spend does not matter, is completely ludicrous, and if you said that any successful business or enterprise worldwide, they would laugh you out of town because it’s a complete fallacy.
Also, taking away the money element, and focusing on quality is important, but other than Leicester, the teams that have spent the most, have generally won the Premier League. Money makes a huge difference, and how it is managed, makes all the difference.