Getting 34-year-olds for 20-30M... trying to compete right now. Yeah, it might work for a couple more years, but we can't build on that. Getting 4-5 young players, like Samardzic, that we can sell two or three of them for massive profit in a few years is the way to go. Trust me, it pains me to I have to look at it this way, but this is the situation we're in right now. Hell, the reason we're afloat so far is that we've sold our best young players. Hakimi, could've actually sold Skriniar, Onana. And next year, yeah, probably we'll have to sell Lautaro, Bastoni, or Barella.
This is why I was a fan of getting someone like Balogun. If he flops, yeah, he has no resale value. But does Taremi or Arnautovic, who are marginally cheaper? If he booms, we have an 80M player on our hands. Rinse and repeat. Maybe once in a blue moon, we can have a good run in the CL and actually try to win it when the stars align, and we've somehow kept a decent core.