If we had better scouting last few years instead spending money on crap players we would already be cl contenders. look at porto, benfica. they never spent more than 10M on a player and they reach the cl knock-out stage almost every year. south america (not just brazil and argentina but other countries too) always had and will always have talented strikers and wingers, and the players that we have there are average not only in cl but even in italy. so the main thing we need is not a player of 30-40M but better scouting system.
