spending figures from jan 07

[bmck 117]

Us:

 

Raised from sales: �£22m

 

Spent on arrivals: �£30.67m

 

Net spend: �£8.67m

 

 

Them:

 

Raised from sales: �£7.15m

 

Spent on arrivals: �£19.86m

 

Net spend: �£12.71m

 

details here: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/display.var.2441504.0.transfer_table_how_walter_smith_and_gordon_strachan_have_fared_in_headtohead_transfer_windows_figures_are_estimated_compiled_by_gary_smith.php

 

walter can incur a certain extent of transfer criticism, but i think he's been fairly shrewd. obviously time will tell with the new signings, but i'm quite happy to see decent money's been spent on youngster while still strenghthening. now it will interesting to see whether they get played.

[UCF2008 0]

'Figures are estimated'

 

In other words Gary Smith has about as much a clue about the INs & OUTs as we do. If we had made some more money on a few of the OUTs (like we probably could have) then we could practically have had a net spend of zero. Still, you have to agree that we've done quite well in the transfer market over the past couple of seasons.

[craig 5,199]

Yeah it looks to me like some of his info is inaccurate. For instance, Ian Murray didn't go to Hibs, he went to Norwich IIRC.

 

But if the figures used are reasonably accurate then we have indeed done well in the transfer market, but could still do better.

[calscot 0]

Also Webster was about 250k not 400k.

[Tannochsidebear 2,463]

In January 2007 we were admittedly miles behind the filth. The PLG moonbeam had failed and we needed big investment in the squad and team to even make us competitive.

 

While Walter on the face of it has done really well to completely transform the squad with under �£10M net spent in 4 windows, our chairman has systematically failed to give Walter the funds required to try to catch up with our rivals. We have spent less than them in a period where we needed to invest more than them.

 

Only their incompetance in the transfer market has allowed us to close the gap, and perhaps even overtake them. Strachan's continual bad buys has been of more benefit to Murray than anyone else.

Also, their failure to bring through any of their own talent in the last two years has meant that they were unable to sell on a "Hutton" to allow them to strengthen other areas.