Last 3 Seasons Spending Totals:
City - £602,190,000
Chelsea - £530,400,000
United - £432,100,000
Liverpool - £430,130,000
Arsenal - £304,850,000
Tottenham - £205,100,000
Last 3 Seasons Selling Totals:
Chelsea - £355,900,000
Liverpool - £273,400,000
Tottenham - £156,100,000
City - £149,900,000
Arsenal - £138,950,000
United - £82,000,000
Looking at that you can see that Jose hasn't been asked to sell to buy (unlike Chelsea and Liverpool). While our spending is practically joint 3rd with Liverpool if you then look at net spend we'd be comfortably second.
Last 3 Seasons Net Spend:
City - £452,290,000
United - £350,100,000
Chelsea - £174,500,000
Arsenal - £165,900,000
Liverpool - £156,730,000
Tottenham - £49,000,000
Honestly don't think anyone can question that Jose hasn't been backed in the market. What we should be questioning is why we haven't recycled more of our players. City for example have sold 12 players valued over 5 million compared to our 6. Tottenham, Chelsea both on 9 players and Arsenal, Liverpool on 8. So we're either very bad at selling our players or Jose wants money while refusing to sell. The Net Spend is actually pretty interesting imo as it shows that we're a tier above Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool (all of whom have pretty similar values).