How you view the House Stuart and Daniel continue to build at Norwich City hinges on an appreciation of the philosophical and practical parameters still in play at Carrow Road.
Webber and Farke plotted a remarkable Championship title triumph that bordered on a footballing miracle when set against the financial backdrop revealed in the latest set of completed accounts to June 2019.
The removal of Premier League parachute payments from the last failed top-flight tilt triggered dramatic shocks to turnover - the lowest since 2010/11 - and by definition the operating profit of a self-funded football club.
Posting a loss of £38m in the financial year to June 2019 - without pending access to fresh Premier League funding streams through success on the pitch - would be unsustainable.
A figure swelled by the liabilities in bonuses to playing staff and contractual obligations to former clubs from promotion.
A player-cost-to-turnover ratio of 105% is the road to ruin, spending more than you earn an unpalatable and unthinkable strategy for any business in any walk of life.
But Norwich will return to profit by the end of the current accounting period. How much so hinges solely on where they finish in the Premier League and what they opt to spend in the upcoming January transfer window.
The former hinges on how residually effective, how adaptable, how robust this footballing philosophy shaped by Farke and Webber proves over the duration of a testing campaign.
The latter is framed by the financial imperative not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Player trading in the latest set of accounts remained in profit, a staple of every transfer window in the Webber and Farke era so far, to stabilise the ship and insulate the Canaries from the biting financial winds.
But a return to the top table last summer ensured there would be no need to flog the family silver, in the manner James Maddison or the Murphys departed.
That is a long way from breaking the bank to try and attract high end talent at exorbitant price tags - but it should not be dismissed lightly.
For Farke's philosophy to stand any chance of germinating in the Premier League he needed to retain his brightest young talent.
Yet there is a misconception City have not already committed to improving the existing squad which is laid bare in the final item of the 38-page document.
There in black and white a £6.2m undertaking for the registrations of Josip Drmic, Sam Byram and Rocky Bushiri, along with season long loan deals for Patrick Roberts, Ralf Fährmann and Ibrahim Amadou; with further payments of £4.7m dependent on performance.
That might not earn the same headlines as Aston Villa's epic transfer close season outlay or Oli McBurnie's club record arrival at Sheffield United, yet it marked a subtle shift and a sign City have navigated towards less choppy waters.
January's trading window, if results on the pitch fail to improve, will be a stress test for the philosophical and practical application of this direction of travel. It is a much harder sell to ask fans to stay true to your footballing beliefs when there are cash reserves in the vault - instead of the need to use an £18m overdraft facility - and one televised appearance in the Premier League is the equivalent to all the glut of tv dates on last season's march to the Championship title.
Webber has shown no propensity to trade heavily in previous January windows. The difference this time around is City's sporting director and head coach know funds are available.
But it would mark a major sea change to predict big-money arrivals at Carrow Road.
Simple football economics suggest a smaller talent pool is available and those on the market come with even higher premiums attached.
Expect more of the same in a quest for incremental gains.
The latest set of Norwich City accounts graphically illustrate what a perilous path the club have travelled under Webber and Farke's guidance.
To risk retracing those steps makes no sense, either on a philosophical or a practical basis.
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