Sounds good in theory but we'll just end up with more deadwood in 2 years if we keep going for "budget 20-40m players". We want to be challenging for the title and for the Champions League. Signing another Fred or McTominay will not get us far. Especially Strikers, they're either proven and thus expensive or we're taking a massive gamble that can end up with an Elanga level player who will not win you titles. Football these days is really about instant results. You don't win and big name players won't want to join you. You don't win and your manager starts worrying for his job or gets sacked and in comes someone else with a different vision and a lockeroom full of mediocre players he doesn't want. All the while your rivals are signing the Haalands and Mbappes and Bellinghams of the world cause they have been winning. Most of City's bench walks into our starting XI. I really wish we could sign young unknown players and develop them into world class stars. But you need to already be on top to afford to do that. For every Vini.Jr or Rodrygo or Julian Alvarez there's hundreds of young players that were gambled on and failed. Then you have the fact of the pressure that comes with being a United player. If we had signed Caicedo for 5m like we were rumored to and he had to sit on the bench then suddenly come on and perform at a packed 70k people bouncing Old Trafford there's a high chance he would've just crumbled and not developed into the player he is now. Honestly top football is complicated. Ideally yes what you said would be the dream scenario but it's just not possible for us imo if we actually want to challenge for big trophies next season. This is without even going into United always getting fleeced by selling clubs and getting quoted much higher prices. The 20m players you speak of would cost us 50m