You don't believe the signings of Pickford, Keane, Klaasen, Sandro and Onyekuru are not steps forward The signing of Sigurdsson is not a step forward(when it happens) ?
I am not sure what proves we are moving forward ?
Keeping all our players ?, all clubs buy and sell players, even Barca. Lukaku has been talking about leaving Everton almost since he arrived and goodness knows what Barkley is thinking of.
There are different models for different clubs, Man City signed two right backs and paid 70m for them.
Spurs have probably the most talented team and did so with some very shrewd buying.
There are not unlimited funds available to RK, we will not suddenly jump from seventh to champions , but it is all about progress and the signings of the players listed above would have us in the seventh heaven a few short years ago.