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Originally Posted by fLame
I see the major argument of the pessimists here is that our last two season sucked.
As an example of "how it should be done right" you list Manchester United, Barca, Bayern Munich.
1. How long did it take ManU to build a team who is terrorizing England and Europe for the last three years? Their transition period took 9 years. 1999 - 2008. And they are entering another transition period as we speak. See how much trophies they win next season.
2. How long did it take Barca to get through their transition period? It took them OMG 14 years OMG! (1992-2006). They might pull off a couple more years of success, although Real Madrid is pushing hard.
3. You mentioned how Bayern spend something like ~80m euro after they dropped out of Champions League. What exactly did they win after making all those purchases?
That said, Milan fans became kind of spoiled because of our recent spell of success, as we got used to pushing for the Champions League title every year!
By the way, I read an article on Financial Times. They did an analysis of the football club's spendings and correlated those with the club's success.
Their findings: Money spent on transfers account only for 30% of club's success in tournaments! While money spent on wages account for 80% of club's success in tournaments!
Anyone recongize Milan policy in the previous two lines?
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You are speaking about CL success only.
Barcelona won the league two years with a CL before losing to Real in one year and tie in points with Real in another. And winning the treble this year.
Before that they have about 6 yrs of without any major trophies. But during those six years without anything, the only players that are still with the team are Xavi and Pugol.
Bayern spent 80mil and the next year they won the Domestic Double. I still think their team is still in transition but if they manage to keep Ribery and Gomez fulfill his potentail, they will be fine.
Man U, they won 6 EPL titles over the last 10 years. TO me thats pretty impressive.