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Genuinely, have you looked at the figures that support that?The spending has increased because the general level of spending in the PL has gone up significantly and so has the money PL clubs receive. We haven't made a conscious effort to spend more, it is just general PL 'inflation'.
To do it quite crudely (from Transfermarkt data as it includes transfer spend only of clubs in the PL this year over the period) for the sake of expediency, Prem net spend in the 5 years to 19/20 was £3570.61m. In the subsequent 5 years to date it was £5635.22m.
Tottenham spending in the 5 years to 19/20 was £113.8m in total. In the subsequent 5 years it's £581.08.
So spending across the PL between the two periods has increased 57.82% yet our spending has increased 415.14%
I'm not sure that "PL inflation" cuts it as an explanation.