As the summer transfer window in England drew to a close at 11pm on Tuesday night, the prevailing mood among Liverpool supporters seemed to be that of considerable disappointment.That was how Jamie Carragher felt about the overall business conducted by his former club since the end of last season, with not even the marquee arrival of Bradley Barcola preventing the window from being an anticlimactic one for many fans.The Frenchman was one of four new additions to Andoni Iraola’s squad, with the Reds also completing the signing of Belgian goalkeeper Lucca Brughmans, who’ll join from Genk next year.Liverpool had biggest net spend of any Premier League clubAfter the summer window concluded last night, Sky Sports published a roundup of the business conducted by the 20 Premier League clubs since the market opened three months ago.Liverpool didn’t come close to replicating the £446m they spent on new signings last year, but their total outlay this time around came in at just over £250m, the sixth-highest spend of anyone in the top flight.Highest gross expenditure from Premier League clubs in summer transfer windowManchester City£440.3mChelsea£342.4mTottenham Hotspur£334mNewcastle£275.2mAston Villa£251.8mLiverpool£250.1m(Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)What might shock and annoy Reds fans who felt dismayed by the transfer window is that the Anfield giants had the biggest net spend of all 20 teams at £218.4m, following the £1m exit of Stefan Bajcetic to Celta Vigo on deadline day.Biggest net spend among Premier League clubs in summer transfer windowLiverpool£218.4mIpswich£190.7mTottenham Hotspur£176mArsenal£136.6mCoventry£129.8mAlmost all of the £31.7m recouped from player sales is accounted for by Curtis Jones’ departure to Inter Milan, even though five first-team players left the club permanently.Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustLiverpool fans will be astonished by net spend statisticLiverpool fans may well be scratching their heads at how the number of additions at Anfield was slightly superseded by the quantity of departures and still ended up costing the club more than £200m.What has that money gotten the Reds? Nobody is complaining about the ability of the players who’ve been signed; rather, it’s what (or who) we didn’t sign that’s causing so much consternation among the fan base.(Photo by Molly Darlington/Getty Images)£218m later and no added competition at right-back. No top-class natural holding midfielder. No natural right-sided winger (even though Iraola is a firm advocate of his forwards being able to play anywhere across the frontline).Even last summer when Liverpool flexed their muscles in the market, a large chunk of the £446m outlay was recouped in selling the likes of Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Caoimhin Kelleher.This year, we saw Mo Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konate depart whilst banking the grand total of…£0. Nothing. Nada. Zip. (Yes, those exits cleared a large portion off the wage bill, but to bring in nothing in transfer fees is still staggering).Unless all of the incoming arrivals are undisputed successes at Anfield (which they could be), and each of the exits is historically regarded as the correct decision, it’d be hard to deviate from the feeling that this transfer window has been a wasterful one.The post Mind-boggling transfer window statistic will simultaneously surprise and annoy Liverpool fans appeared first on The Empire of The Kop.