The club needs to be in 2 minds with transfers:Every promising player with a bit of ability is being quoted for stupid money now, we have an academy for a reason and we should use it.
1) Make the big profile transfers when presented with good deals: Haaland
then
2) Be frugal and find deals for players performing outside of the big leagues: Alvarez
Otherwise we run into a situation where if we need like 5 signings, there is no way to spend big on all the areas, they need to be smarter in the market.
Even though it seems like we will sign quite a few players this window due to players leaving, I don't suspect any to go above 50-60m (Frenkie is out in my mind because of this).
I do hope we use the academy a bit more for backup roles.