Aye but they sold more than that as well.
The mere fact they are boasting about having "financial power" and they can't seem to sign any of their targets wouldn't go down well if i was a fan.
True, they have, although I view gross spend as a better indicator of ambition as net spend can be hugely misleading due to one or two big sales - imagine if Spurs had really sold bale for 100m, they'd be sandwiched with us and Arsenal at the bottom of that "net spent" table, further destroying its use as an indicator. I think the season or two after Man Utd sold Ronaldo they were down there too. Means nothing tbh.
I just meant it's a common meme to hear that the Arsenal board want Arsene to spend but he's not spending instead he'd rather buy a 16 year old random french lad and turn him into Henry mk II etc etc.