To use another pointless analogy which has nothing to do with football
You need absolutely need a new pair of steel toe cap boots before you start work on the 1st of September, you don’t have any and if you don’t get a pair you won’t be able to start the job - you’ve got your eyes on a pair but don’t think they’re worth £100, so you wait a couple of months for them to go into the sale because you want to pay £50, meanwhile all other suitable options have sold out and it’s too late to start doing any more research now, it’s the middle of August and they still haven’t gone into the sale, you have 3 options.
1) pay the £100 because you have no other real alternatives in mind
2) panic and buy something cheaper which you know not as much about and you don’t think will be as fit for purpose
3) buy nowt and can’t start work