Oh, I appologise, I didn't realise we're working with 'maybes'. Winning the CL is a bonus for a season, it should never, ever be a do or die sackable offense. We are not PSG. Sir Alex, only managed 2 CL wins for fecks sake and that's when we dominated the English League financially for over a decade. Winning the league is a more realistic option and even then we're competiting against Clubs that throw 100 million at just one player. Again, it's an unrealistic expectation and you're simply setting the Manager up to fail, likewise i'm sure Liverpool and Chelsea want to challenge for the league but they aren't going to expect it as they all know what lies infront of them. Your 3rd "maybe" option is more realistic and is the expectation of most United fans, that should be our goal this season as it's a good stepping stone for next year.
But don't think spending money = guartanees success, that's been proven by many Managers, many Clubs across many Leagues to be a redundant argument. It's not even on Ole to negiotate sales or purchases. It's upto the board to find buyers for our lads and get decent fees. Using a Net Spend argument as a way of adding pressure onto Ole is misplaced. That should be an argument you use to put pressure on the board. Either way, Ole has had plenty of time to build his squad, he's got the vast majority of signings right, VdB is the only obvious fail. But we have to win something this season and if we don't then I think the Club has to realistically look at alternatives, maybe not act on it straight away, but certainly look at options.