Barca are always interested in quality players even when they know it will be impossible for them to get. They want to try every possible to uplift them team back to the way it used to be but to do that you need finance to add high quality players to the team. They should rest for now and focus on building their current players and their academy players instead of trying to acquire players they can’t afford and in the end it may result to salary cut of some players in order to pay the wages of these players.
I agree more with the mindset as you said because at the moment Barcelona finances are really bad and maybe the best way is to improve by recruiting academy players and educating these young players so they can have strong new talents and if that works Barcelona can sell those player and recover their finances for the next few seasons.
Even though in the midst of Barcelona's poor finances, they can still get high-quality players and that proves how serious Barcelona is in preparing a better future. However, the question is are the players brought in ready to survive in the midst of Barcelona's finances like this? they also need to be paid and compensated accordingly.
Depend on how far these players influence the team's performance in various competitions, if they manage to make changes and lead Barcelona to win various competitions then there is no doubt that they can survive and Barcelona have sufficient funds to pay them after winning competitions. But if the opposite happens, agree or not they still have to be prepare to accept the consequences of Barcelona