The quality of response is most often down to the quality of the question, you invited an answer with the way you worded things, so keep that up and I'm sure I'll see you in the mains soon enough.
I sure needed some time to get my thoughts on the contract sorted, at first I found it utterly laughable, then it just made more and more sense, but the way some in this thread have been purely condescending towards people with differing opinions (on both sides of this coin) makes it hard to come in with the mindset to give a proper reasoning for your thoughts.
Yeah, I agree with you, now that I've had time to think over the different aspects of the deal. It's not nearly as bad as many of us think/thought. I'm not one of the people who think it will have a knock-on effect when it comes to buying new players in different categories (as a star in Griezmann), I do however think that Rashford for example will ask for similar wages, and other potential English/Youth squad-players will ask for similar wages, but that isn't an issue if the standard of football from the players goes up to the point where we as fans are happy with what we see. I also think that even if it has that kind of knock-on effect, it doesn't mean that the club is forced to agree to all squad-players wanting that kind of wages if they don't think they will develop, be squad-players for long or should be upgraded on.
In my head, the players on the quality of Herrera, Smalling (yes, despite my many rants of thinking he is too bad to be a starter for us) and Mata should be our go-to squad-players, as I think they can do a job in a top side, but cannot be the pillars of it. A few slightly below that standard is healthy, but not too many from my point of view.