Fair enough, semantics really though isn't it. Point is we spent an absolute fortune with nothing to show for it and that's why we are where we are now. We can cry corruption all we want but the fact is the owners we protested against, that we knew were running the club shambolically, put us in...
2016 to 2021 spent £508m on players. There's a given 5 year period for you. So in response to the comment "if we'd spent half that etc...." well we did and we made an absolute cock of it.
We spent more than that over a given 5 year period under Walsh / Koeman et al. That's partly why we are where we are. Plus their turnover is absolutely huge, based on being a successful club for years and years. Why we thought we should just be able to jump the queue I don't know and it's got us...
"No limits whatsoever" is nonsense though isn't it. Arsenal and Man United both need a striker but can't afford to buy one because they're already scraping the ceiling of FFP, Spurs took Werner on loan for the same reason.