NET spend. Spurs received £12m for Crouch, £8m for Palacios, £8m for Pav, £16m for Bent plus quite a bit for the like of Hutton, Boateng, Taraabt, OHara, Kranjcar etc while sunderland Bent aside wont have received anywhere near as much.
Oh okay, don't actually know whether thats better or worse.