Well I guess the point is it's not that easy to replace half the team.
The lion's share of the money went to Bentancur, Kulusevski, Richarlison, Johnson, Vicario, Dragusin, Solanke and Danso. That's a group of worthwhile PL players in arguably every case, I'd rate a couple of them as top players personally, but collectively there's just a slightly flawed, low-ceiling, 8th place-y feeling about that as a squad core, with us relying on the magic development of kids to elevate the team. I think that's where the frustration comes.
Yet it's also a dramatically better situation than spending big sums on Ndombele and Lo Celso and Sessegnon and Doherty and Reguilon, etc etc etc. Those are much bigger, more harmful and more expensive problems because of how poor they are on the field and how difficult it is to move them.
