remember when they had one of the 5 best ever clubteams, sold Makelele, their only cdm who was also arguably the worlds best at that point, and got beckham so that they now had the two best rightwingers in the world, that couldnt play in 1 team ?
One can argue 'oh but financially it was good'. like getting bale is
But if they would look at their team and strenghten it, they could domminate spain and europe, and multiple trophee's/year, wich will maker them richer in the long end.