The half a billion figure annoys me. It suggests our spending is high & our squad should be good.
City, Chelsea and others have spent much much more over the past 5 years and created massively deep squads. We spent barely anything in the last 5ish years to build for the future. We haven't bought a lineup of talented youngsters to replace Van Dijk, Salah.
This "half a billion" has basically been to replace players who have left. When you look at our benches this season they haven't been deep.
We haven't spent anything near the rich teams over the past 5/10 years and that's reflected in the depth of our squad. When players are out of form or out of shape we suffer.