Well if going from 6th to 4th is more than "Astonishing", then we must be speaking two different languages.
Arsenal spent big after years of not spending much, we have continually spent big.
Chelsea sold a lot and has a lower net spend than us...
Well I don't think it would be astonishing.
Firstly we have no idea if we bought Van Dijk he would be any good. We bought Maguire for more money, trying to get our own Van Dijk, so that was a bad example.
Even if we got someone as good as Van...
A lot of waffle.
Reality is that we are very limited with how much we can spend, and we need to replace a lot of players.
Going big on any player is a fools errand right now, ignoring the fact that they might not work out or we have overrated...