Actually the facts are that Monk spent £50.1m on 8 players in under 6 months and also borrowed at high cost Lewis Baker, Jack Harrison.
The Club did raise £48.4m moving 12 players on permanently that season and loaned out a number more.
pulis sold only Forshaw and Christie of those for £7.5m, the others had already left under monk.
pulis also loaned in besic and crainie from pl clubs in Jan.
Boro really just terribly re-cycled their relegated squad for an awful one, spending under £2m on fees overall but costing a fortune in wages and agents and a major commitment by Gibson.
They just bought utter shīte.
Braithwaite, Randolph already sold for losses. Christie breaks even.
Howson Shotton and Johnson have no value now, Assombolonga and Fletcher are so bad as to be little more than a bag of balls.
It was stunningly bad round of recruitment.
Then Mr BalancetheBooks gets loads of credit for selling Aitor's Forshaw, Traore, Bamford,Fabio and Barragan at a combined major profit, while selling home grown Gibson.
Then he spunks £19.4m himself on 3 utter nob-jockeys in Flint, Savile and McNair; one of which we have already sold at a major loss and the two others who would only raise a laugh if offered for sale.
Whilst loaning in Mikel, Hugill, besic (again), McQueen, Batth, van la parra and bringing in Lonerghan on a free but not free.
Whilst BalancetheBooks is getting paid a cut on transfers adding up to a package of £80k per week for 18 months of disaster where we are left with a terrible squad and huge problems.
Karanka deserves a 15 on that 1-20 scale. He would have taken us back up and we may not even have gone down had he been backed that January. I'd still far rather have him here now than anything since or any other realistic alternative.
Mowbray deserves the 11 awarded earlier, but we were heading only one way.
Monk deserves 3. At least we got money back on Christie and Randolph saved us the season before last.
BalancetheBooks deserves **** all given he sold the wrong players, bought and loaned in utter rubbish, bored us to tears driving fans away and burgled £6m from the Club in wages and cuts, whilst rimming Mr Gibson.
He is where he should always be and that is unemployed.