So how much?

[South Coast White]

Anyone have any idea what the real total spend has been on non loan players?

[twang]

This is pure guesswork as the figures vary from source to source but it should be something like this:

Seri and Le Marchand - £23m+£3,5m=£26,5m (A combined €30m from various international sources)
Fabri - £5,3m (€6m confirmed by Besiktas)
Mitrovic - £20-22m (the reports vary)
Mawson - £15m (most reports claim this, plus add-ons)
Bryan - £6m
Anguissa - £22,3m (€25m according to both BBC and Sky)

So somewhere between £95-97m shouldn't be way off the mark.

[Statto]

This is how I reckon that spending will look in the accounts, where each player's fee will be spread (treated as amortizing) over the term of his contract.

Obviously I've made some assumptions: I've used Twang's figures, and for the sake of the exercise assumed £1m loan fees for most loanees except Schurrle (still reckon we paid a fair bit for that one) and Fosu-Mensah (maybe a bit less). I've also assumed we're not carrying over any surplus/deficit from our maximum permitted losses in the last two seasons in the Championship.

Interesting things is you can see a c. £110m gross spend this summer could actually only show as £27m spend in the year's accounts. Perhaps even less if we offload Fonte and/or one or two others to European teams in the next few weeks.

IMO Tony Khan has done brilliantly to bring in all these "elite" (his terminology but I agree) players with the money available.

[bill taylors apprentice]

This is how I reckon that spending will look in the accounts, where each player's fee will be spread (treated as amortizing) over the term of his contract.

Obviously I've made some assumptions: I've used Twang's figures, and for the sake of the exercise assumed £1m loan fees for most loanees except Schurrle (still reckon we paid a fair bit for that one) and Fosu-Mensah (maybe a bit less). I've also assumed we're not carrying over any surplus/deficit from our maximum permitted losses in the last two seasons in the Championship.

Interesting things is you can see a c. £110m gross spend this summer could actually only show as £27m spend in the year's accounts. Perhaps even less if we offload Fonte and/or one or two others to European teams in the next few weeks.

IMO Tony Khan has done brilliantly to bring in all these "elite" (his terminology but I agree) players with the money available.

I agree with your assessment on the work done by the recruitment team.
Even if the figures are not totally accurate this explains the situation very well!