So turns out, the thing people were yelling would erase all possibility of a cup, didn't erase all possibility of a cup. And that's not even counting the additional players that were making between 9-10m, or the wasted cap. Turns out, those 10m players were actually pretty darn important to their cup win.
And now that you were wrong, you shift the goalposts to other meaningless criteria, and pretend that prevents all possibility of a cup.
It's crazy that you can see the future and you waste it on this.
No, but they're a lot closer than you'll ever admit.