2016 calendar year Total Spend Table and Points Table

Premier League table for the 2016 calendar year
Pos Team Pts
1 Chelsea 76
2 Tottenham 71
3 Liverpool 70
4 Arsenal 69
5 Man City 69
6 Man Utd 69
7 Southampton 63
8 Leicester 59
9 West Ham 55
10 Everton 47
11 West Brom 43
12 Bournemouth 43
13 Stoke 43
14 Sunderland 41
15 Swansea 40
16 Watford 38
17 C Palace 27

This only contains the teams that played the 37 games of 2016, as does the table below:

2016 calendar year Premier League top spenders
Club Official spend
Manchester City £174.2m
Manchester United £149.55m
Chelsea £122.7m
Arsenal £93.1m
Leicester City £76.78m
Liverpool £75m
Watford £72.1m
Tottenham £70.6m
Everton £65m
Bournemouth £56.6m
Crystal Palace £56.5m
Southampton £47.8m
West Ham £47.35m
Sunderland £41.85m
Stoke £36.55m
Swansea £35.25m
West Brom £22.5m

Given the 'invisible' spends from Granada and Udinese, would we have been in the top four of the second table?

 

Mind you, the words 'official spend' may not be entirely official...

I seem to remember that the club recently laughed at the size of some of the fees that made up that figure.