Their hands are tied really (problem of their own making).
You can't replace the squad with no money.
You can only sell your best players to make money...but then you'd have to replace them...chances are with worse players.
Only hope is that they start identifying reasonably-priced talent, like Moyes did, to plug the gap.
Even Patterson, Myko and Alli don't really fit that bill, because they were far from cheap.
We tend to sell or loan our players at a significant loss, which just makes it worse.
I'm fascinated to see who we are in for with Cahill and Thirwell involved.
Tarkowski makes sense - perhaps a continuation of the thinking that got us Gray and Townsend - bargain bin.