What this all amounts to is that the club from a cash-management persepective and from a 'building' momentum perspective has been exceptionally well managed.
The clubs infrastructure across recruiting youngsters, development, academy/facilities and soon the new stadium will mean we have an incredible base for future footballing success - where credit should also be laid at Poch's door for his day one understanding of what the club wanted and needed to achieve whilst grappling with the cash restrictions that have been imposed upon him.
The level of transfer value inflation is as one agent told me recently 'utter madness' - but as it's a financial race as well as a footballing one, one he believes will continue for at least the next three seasons.
If FFPR had more bite or were enforced the way it was first envisoned, three of our rivals would potentially be counting the cost and potentially excluded from competitions or transfer embargo's and / or paying huge fines.
Much criticism can be laid at the boards door for the time in which it's taken to get here into what could be one of the most amazing positions any club could ever find itself in the history of the PL - but it's arguable that we're in such great shape because of the need to impose financial limitations, not despite them.
All eyes now should be on the future, if we can improve our commercial performance which is inter alia a necessary part of the where the business has to improve, then eventual on the field success can be a given.
Managing how we sell our key assets and re-investing wisely may now be our biggest challenge.
Until we are a World class club (and that can now be openly spoken of as a real potential possibility) we simply won't be able to keep hold of World class talent - but what we mustn't do is repeat the Bale experience - and if Poch is around, I suspect we won't.