Premier League has more than 8 teams with higher NET spend than Real Madrid in the last 10 years and yet their teams need 2-3 rebuilds every few years…
Why don’t they buy the best upcoming young talents as Madrid does:
- Vinicius (23)
- Bellingham (20)
- Rodrygo (23)
- Endrick (17) - 2024
- Guler (18)
- Valverde (25)
- Tchouameni (23)
- Camavinga (20)
- Militao (25)
- Davies (23) - 2024?
All of these players are bought when they were U-23 and only 1 (Jude) of them costed 100M+ while other 80M (Tchouameni).
What stops the other richer PL clubs to follow the same policy and buy the Cherki, Redondo, Wirtz, Santiago, and other young gems who are actually quality instead of wasting their money on overpriced deals (Mount, Casemiro, Havertz, Caicedo, Cucurella, Sterling, Mudryk, Antony, Nunez, etc) leading them to rebuild after rebuild for years…
I feel that all of Liverpool/United/Chelsea/Spurs/Arsenal goes for higher floor but lower ceiling in terms of their quality and potential while Madrid has a priority for highest ceiling ones…
Its like the saying, ‘Shoot for the moon and you will land alongside stars’. Its more profitable and sustainable in long term if you buy absolute worldbeater wonderkid than just a ‘good’ and ‘stable’ buys like McAllister, Gakpo, Mount, and others.
It simply limits your capability and thats a disaster especially when you are competing against Madrid, Bayern, City likes in domestic and continental competitions who are very much up for lining up dynasty level squads.
Arsenal, Chelsea and City had a policy on getting only young talents, it just hadn’t worked as well as Real Madrid’s.
Do u remember Carlos Vela or Arshavin in Arsenal?
Chelsea got young De Bruyne and Salah…
City has been buy in young talents like crazy, Julian Alvarez is the latest successful example.
I’m sure other people will remember more and better examples
City got Aguero when he was 23, De Bruyne when he was 23, Sterling when he was 20, Dias when he was 24, etc.
Now they’ve got Gvardiol who’s 21, Doku 21, Alvarez 23, and Haaland 23
City’s policy has worked fantastic, they just aren’t as young, expensive or as much of a gamble as Madrids
Aguero, Sterling, Halaand, Gvardiol were already well regarded as one of the best players in their positions when they moved to City. All were signed for big money except Aguero
KDB, Doku, Alavarez were gambles that worked out or at least appear to be working out very well.
Gvardiol, Dias, Doku, Haaland, Sterling, De Bruyne have all been big money signings though? All of them are more expensive than all young Real Madrid players besides Bellingham what are you waffling about