Yeah that may be so but how is it logical to sign the backups of players you're hoping to sign in the future

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We don't actually have that much time, we're dealing with Marotta here. The man negotiates at a snails pace and he's got under two weeks.
We're going about this all wrong. Signing a CM will just stretch our budget even more, and that means buying average players. We should be signing 2-3 worthy players each mercato and accumilate quality over a number of years. After all, wasn't this recovery process supposed to take a number of seasons anyway? Desperately rushing to cover every problematic spot within one mercato with a small to medium sized budget is just asking not to improve to the drastic mesures we're aspiring to.