It's not that we are broke, we aren't, but we have no viable plan. Just buying players again and again. CR7 is a great player, but we didn't have the team for him. MU don't either. We thought he will be the cherry on the cake, but the cake was rotting out already.
If Allegri is the chosen one for the next few years and he has a blueprint for the type of players and team tactics - we should start training those type of players in the academy. It would be at least 2-3 years before we should add top players to this team. Otherwise they would cost an arm and a leg and would want an insane salary just to keep quiet with no trophies. No point in doing that. I know CL is a cash cow, but we are in a constant loop of plugging gaps with meh players, just to make it to the CL again next year - a certain disaster in the long term.