At the same time, it's unlikely City will be as forthcoming on ridiculously lucrative contracts as when they first came in.
Continuing to keep deadwood as stop-gap squad fillers isn't wise in the long run either. This planning/development should have happened long ago, and I have no doubt there are questions in Abu Dhabi why it didn't, but now we are in the situation we have to go for broke.
If we only have Pep for two more seasons, though I think most believe he will extend, another season of relying on Clichy and Willy, or even the likes of Yaya, is shooting ourselves in the foot.
We've got about half of a potentially world class side right now, if the club ever intend to finish the job then the time is now.
While we've got you, what do you think about talk in MD (picked up by other media, somewhat backed up by Sammy_Goal and alluded to by tolm) of City working on a potentially world record breaking signing right now?