Claudius wrote:
I think the Liverpool story just shows you need yo be clear what your target is and you need to be ruthlessly efficient one getting there.
And don’t mind the noise. Liverpool used more money than any other team on agents, they had questionable signings like Ox, and some of their players took forever to gel. They didn’t zoom down the autobahn. But they had a clear plan, focused and funded it.
Its just like everything in life you long term plan and you usually end up in a good place. You don't you won't unless you're incredibly lucky.
And the most annoying thing in life is when someone puts a long term plan in place and when 5-10years of hard work pays off people think "look at that overnight success". You often see it with chefs they've worked their asses off from tbd bottom and saved everything they could for 10 years and finally open a restaurant. Its 15 years in the making and people think overnight success. its making the tough decisions and doing what you dont want tk do in thr short term to pay off in the long term.
Liverpool got the good enough scouts in place, signed these young guys that were rough and gave them a coach with proven recored and developed them for years. And when they sold they brough better in.
United when for the short term fixes and threaded water for years bring in big names to fill holes. While liverpool brough in potential and bags of it. Ifs only now united have focused on building something they look like their going somewhere.
Currently we've a mix, but we can't keep signing cedric, luiz, Coutinho, willan players. In 2 years you've nothing to show for it. But to be fair we have a lot of great youngsters coming through aswell and hardly any transfer budget.
