Your success in the past years happened because of the business done before it, not because of the business done during it. It wasn't Ceballos and Theo Hernandez that won you the CL titles.
Since 2016/17 it's been one feck up one after the other and you went from the best team in the world to the complete mess that was last season. It was incredibly poor management. This summer you're just doing at once what should have been done smoothly during the past 3 years.
If you look at things without context then everthing except winnig everything is failure because one can always go back and say "this should have been done differently".
Here's how it looks, looking at it from the inside:
1. Nothing last forever regardless of how hard you try and how good your decisions are
2. Buying "cheap Spanish talent" while the player prices were going to the moon and our first team still had few years in them was a gamble, but it was done at the right time. It didn't work out but we can live with that. Besides, all of those players will be sold without financial loss.
3. Ronaldo was not replaced because Perez hoped Bale will take over now that Ronaldo is not here any more. Bale was his project, it was always going to happen and I as a fan just had to accept that.
4. We lost one season and we will have a squad ready for figthing on all fronts in a month. All our signing will be financed by player sale so we're not really spending money but we're getting the players we need.
It couldn't have been better for us these last 6 years even in our wildest dreams and financially this period was also great for the club (spending nothing and winning so much, getting huge new shirt sponsor and Adidas deals based on that recent success in CL). One bad season doesn't change that. It means nothing. We reset now, get the hunger back into the squad and we start fresh. It's awesome all together.