I am sorry, but your first post that I replied to says something different than your current reply. If you thought initially that rest of money is gonna be paid for other non-sport like Espai-Barca. that sound to me that you didn't think they intend to spend the whole money,unlike what you claim now.
That was my whole argument about and I made it very clear than this isn't defending the board, but it is about the board being in deep fuckin crisis and they will have to over spend to save their asses. If you thought that they will intend to spend big then you didn't explain yourself very well and there is no disagreement here
I didn't say they were unwilling to spend more than 60-70% of the Neymar fee, just that it would end up not happening due to their shit plan and incompetence and that they'd be content with what they've done. And, AFAIK, they are content. Otherwise, they would've dropped Coutinho and done SOMETHING instead of sitting on Coutinho and blowing smoke on all these shitty side targets that they wouldn't have gotten. If they were really that desperate, something would've happened by now. It didn't. It will (likely) be spent on Espai Barca, not necessarily because that was their plan all along but because that's how things have gone down given their initial plan and it seems they're content with things as is.
My prediction was about the end result: Paulinho, Dembele (thought it'd be Dybala), and failing on Coutinho just as they would've failed on Verratti. Doesn't matter that they "tried" to get Coutinho cause they were doing the same useless bullshit to "try" and get Verrratti until August 31st and neither case was ever gonna succeed.
The point I made back then anyway was that we really should NOT hope Neymar was sold because it's unrealistic to expect him to be replaced properly. A good chunk of the forum was going on about how it was an alright deal for us to lose Neymar because we'd get 222M on top of our supposedly 80-100M existing transfer budget; people were literally expecting we'd spend something like 300M to radically renovate the team after the Neymar sale and build a very balanced team with multiple world class transfers to replace Ney. I said this wouldn't happen and, unless something happens in the next 30 mins, it will not happen. Instead they just persisted with the same bullshit they were doing earlier this summer + a Neymar replacement (Dembele), as expected.
So I guess in the end there really is no disagreement. You were saying they'd try to save their own asses, I was saying they're too stupid to actually do that and that they wouldn't execute it. No disagreements that they're that stupid, which was ultimately the deciding factor. I was making my prediction based on their pattern of behavior and they've proven to be consistent with that unfortunately.