All very good if your youth policy is producing young talent, as off late we are not and now we are in the position of trying to buy it in on the cheap and taking a gamble. Plus we are also trying to offload players where we have little hope in getting anywhere close to our initial outlay.
A decent injection of funds and then look at being self sustaining would have been much much better but as Gao has no funds to fatten the pig he expects the pig to feed on peanuts but produce decent bacon.