Yep, virtually every professional football club is still recruiting when the season starts and often clubs are still buying on transfer deadline day (which is why there is usually a dedicated sky sports day to it.
We are not unique, it's the way of the football world - why should we be any...
They would because that would mean promotion and therefore our squad won't be good enough to stay up, etc........and unless we spend at least 40 times the amount of the parachute payments we may receive, then we have no chance to stay up and will be in Div 2 or even non league before you can...