Exactly it's the whole package - transfer fee, agents fees, signing on fees and wages.
Lerma didn't include a transfer fee but i suspect the total 3 year cost will be over £15m, possibly £20m.

I remember when we signing Bats on loan from Chelsea we covered his £100k plus a week wages and paid a loan fee - so c £6m for the year. Brentford bought Toney for £5m and his wages were probably c£10k a week. A similar investment in total for 1 year.

Palace do spend money, perhaps not always wisely

I said it before the window opened . If we manage to hold on to the players we have bar Zaha it will be a good window for us . We will be alot better off in December when the window opens as we are saving 450k per week . Maybe a few loans . What and who we need and what and who we get are by far two different things . We need imho left back cover ,a striker a winger but will prob end up with a 3rd choice goalkeeper and a few players for the academy. Its the Palace way .

Same was said about Bournemouth and Forest last season. Relying on the promoted teams having a duffer didn't help last season. In relation to transfer windows think the writing was on the wall last season. Two very flat windows in terms of transfer activity, Doucoure apart. Lerma looks a good recruit, similar to Doucoure but perhaps with more goal threat but we cannot sit still in other areas this season, as gaps have appeared. It stands to reason unless some players suddenly find a run of form we need to try to be stronger. We need to be as we sacked our manager with 10 games to go fearing relegation. January was a chance to strengthen the squad but this did not happen. Easy to blame the manager but not sure how much support he got in the transfer window. Think there was a mindset within the club that everything was rosy as we had good form pre World Cup but the wheels fell off after that. The worry is due to good form at the end of the season nothing will move with new recruits now. Hoping post Zaha things will move quicker in the transfer area. COYP !!

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I think poor is being slightly generous. He made PVA look like a great defender at times last year although he improved a little towards the end of the season. Having one specialist player in the squad for a position is not good practice. I thought Adaramola might have come on a bit in his development but I’m not sure where he is at, at present.

That's brilliant. While we have no wide players, we can rely on three teams being worse than us.

Red and Blue Army!

Its just close season doom and gloom mate , the longer the summer the worse team we have got by the time we kick off .

A couple of wins and the patrons will be talking of Europe and why isn't Mitchell picked for England