We would be and yet we managed to spend close to 220m in transfer fees under such 'dire' conditions. It is fans like yourself who probably need to make an excuse or give undue importance to situations that are not the cause of certain glaring failures. This is not about having a cool name on the back of a jersey. This is a signal to the fans across the world that since winning the CL is an objective, we intend to go about doing something in that direction. If you told me in season one of the project that we should be building a core and a self sustaining team, I would understand. If you told me in season two that we need depth, I would understand, but I'd you're trying to make excuses of debt ridden histories and how 'weak' this club is in such an eccentric European climate full of oil money then you are wrong. Because the project at some point in its curve involves growth, and that grow co-incides with a certain leap in quality. Like Elkann said it himself, and I don't think it was a shot in the dark, ambiguous to what he has seen of our mercatos: the time for talk is over.