I disagree with this. If we sell more and buy smart, we can buy more and buy better. The intrinsic value is continuity. Which is the strategy Madrid and now Liverpool are employing. It's a sustainable strategy and it significantly reduces risk. We can quickly replace players who don't cut it, keeping the team ever ready. Even if Tchouameni bombs Madrid will move him at an appropriate time for €40-€50M and then they can again buy a top talent, because they previously moved Casemiro for €80M. Now look at us. We buy Antony and don't sell Rashford. Rashford walks for free, Antony bombs, but we keep him, or sell him for peanuts. We are €150M down. But now other positions like DM, RB, GK also need replacement. So we are struggling to fill the gaps. While we fill some, others open. But we can't fill them all because we don't have enough cash. We are forced to buy stop-gaps, pay premium for second-raters, or pray that an academy player breaks through, which is a very low chance.
For the amount of money we would spend this summer you could build almost an entire new team. Maybe a whole new team if you sell dross like Rashford, AWB, etc.
But this would require a large overarching club culture and strategy and we are the furthest from it.
