I mean, at some point, if we could just make intelligent purchases, our crazy wage bill and insane transfer debt would fall off and we'd be in a much better financial position where cashing in on our youth wouldn't be needed.
But instead we go out and get Nico Gonzalez after one good year, paying a premium to a direct competitor who does us no favors, instead of going to France or Germany or the Netherlands or ANYWHERE else to get a young player who could break out. This is the problem.
Instead we go out and give a direct rival +70m for Koopmeiners instead of INVESTING that into a younger, less known name from Germany or France or Serbia or legitimately ANYWHERE else.
We improve our financial situation, with one of the best marketing and stadium revenue in the entire league, and we blow it on pet projects of managers who haven't earned the right to get what they want. Motta didn't earn the right to be given a 70m Koopmeiners. We should've been smarter.
Lots of other clubs are smarter than this.