The effort is obviously geared at getting immediate success rather than grooming a team that can cope after the end of the golden era. The Pjanic-Authur deal is another class example of this. It's unclear who is requesting the transfers as the team seems not to be following the managers desires.
I remember a period when they literally went out with 11 players from youth team majors.
This is a picture from 7 years ago with the entire squad having played in the youth academy;
soon after Vitoria's 3-1 defeat against Boavista. Well it was just a loan contract and I can understand such action from Vitoria since it puts a question mark over player's commitment towards the team though I think they were a bit harsh. Some sort of warning would have been good.