Yes, but the 2-3 players we have (allegedly) missed out on will, in turn, have freed up some budget which can be spent on some other players in due course. Depending on who the manager turns out to be, who's to say that these different and as yet unknown players, together with the high quality...
You are 100% correct here. Not surprising that most of NSC have no experience of this, but it's true nonetheless. You have to dot every I and cross every t otherwise the lawyers take you to the cleaners. Hence, I would guess, the 500 pages of appendices in this case.