The other lot have signed some amount of players in the last 2 years that rarely or never play. Several are out on loan this season, but transfer fees signing-on fees, agents fees and possibly paying wages or a portion of wages whilst on loan, for players that are giving them little or nothing in return, must be hitting them hard:
Patryk Klimala - Jagiellonia Bialystok - £3.5m
David Turnbull - Motherwell - £3.25m
Boli Bolingoli - Rapid Vienna - £3m
Ismaila Soro - Bnei Yehuda - £2m
Vakoun Issouf Bayo - Dunajka Streda - £2m
Marian Shved - Karpaty Lviv - £1.7m
Hatem Abd Elhamed - Hapoel Be'er Sheeva - £1.6m
Luca Connell - Bolton Wanderers - £350k
Tobi Uluwayemi - Spurs - Undisclosed
Leo Hjelde - Rosenborg - Undisclosed
Jonathan Afolabi - Southampton - Undisclosed
Lee O'Connor - Man Utd - Undisclosed
Armstrong Oko-Flex - Arsenal - Undisclosed
Andrew Gutman - Indiana Hoosiers - Undisclosed
Manny Perez - NC State Wolfpack - Undisclosed
Youssef Mulumbu - Kilmarnock - Free