nope I never said I expect us to be challenging for the CL but at the same time we ought to be growing in quality by now, if the board are merely satisfied by winning the league and making it to the knockout stages of the CL every year then we are not growing. If all we do is spend a large chunk of our budget on squad players and not improving the quality of the squad then marotta has got to shoulder the blame. I can almost no longer accept this excuse about the 'financial situation' when we spend 13 mill on the likes of ogbonna, 15 mill on pereyra and 20+ mill on morata just to sit on our bench! we should be beyond that stage now and I have never hidden my disappointment regarding last summer's transfers and I wouldn't be surprised to be in for something similar again this summer as we have already assigned a chunk of our budget to pay for these 'option' deals
If Coman and Morata fullfill their potential, we have added quality.
Pereyra showed (ok, not against strong opposition) that he might be able to fill in for Vidal if he would leave.
It's just not that easy to remove players out of the starting 11 when they had a season like last season AND when, up until now, have reached the targets set by the club.
For the coming years, I won't expect to see a Reus or a Di Maria joining juve, not will all the competitors from other leagues joining in the battle for the signatures from those players and having more cash and more options to give higher wages. Because you do know that that is maybe the biggest problem in SerieA compared to other leagues.
(FYI, Even Sneijder is earning 12MEuro/year in Turkey.)