• Club signed seven players with net spend only £28m• ‘It was a tough transfer window for us, 18 senior players left’
Marco Silva said Everton have taken a risk in not signing a central defender this summer and their portrayal as one of the Premier League’s big spenders is misguided.
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Arsenal, Aston Villa and the two Manchester clubs invested more money in fresh talent during the transfer window than Everton, who signed seven players at a combined cost of £118.5m. Almost £80m was recouped in player sales, as Silva and the director of football, Marcel Brands, continued to clear out the deadwood left by their predecessors.