I feel like this situation seems to happen to us more than other clubs. Overpaying rival clubs for players that don't live up to expectations is not a sustainable business model. When we bought Nedved, Thuram, and Buffon with the Zizou money, all of them had 100+ appearances with Lazio and Parma, which is multiple seasons of putting up solid numbers. This is much different than flash in the pan Koopmeiners, Vlahovic, Bernardeskis, and the rest of the trash we bought in recent memory.