article_snippet: The team with the lowest transfer outlay this season rose unassumingly into eighth place on Wednesday night.
article_snippet: And all the while forking out less cash on recruits than Burnley.
article_snippet: By contrast Burnley, hardly the most lavish of spenders, have parted with around £8m on transfer fees.
article_snippet: Stoke also sold Cameron Jerome to Norwich and Ryan Shotton to Derby County for a combined cost of £2m – so in all are around £2.3m up on net transfer spend.
article_snippet: Stoke are not averse to opening the wallet.
article_snippet: But when Stoke have suffered injuries Stoke has not provoked a sudden splurge.
highlights_snippet: Stoke spent just £1.2m on players last summer, less than any other club .
  
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