Nobody told me they moved to Spain…
It’s official–Real Madrid is the New York Yankees of international Soccer. It didn’t take long after their loss in the Round of 16 in the Champion’s League for “vote of confidence” to come out and not much longer for the rumors about a new manager.
Apparently, Arsene Wenger is the first–of a probable many–manager who will have to tell Real “Thanks, but not thanks”. He even said:
“£240 million doesn’t buy you the Champions League necessarily. If you can spend it every year, you will get there but it is the first year of Perez back and you have to give him time. He only has to invest again next year, so I think they will be a force again. But at the moment it’s difficult to take for them.”
“In the last five years we have been in the [Champions League] final, the semi-final, two times the quarter-final. It is the consistency that is the most difficult to achieve at the top level because you have so many teams that want to be in there. When you just turn up regularly, in England, we don’t rate that any more because we are used to it. But it’s not easy.”
He’s know they’re going “Yankees” too. Trying to find every big name, every superstar, and trying to find a way to spend every Euro they can to make their team better when money isn’t the answer.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Take a lesson from the Yankees. They did this “overspending” thing for almost a decade until they realized it wasn’t working. Right after they changed their mindset–if even slightly–they won the World Series.
Real Madrid–you can do the same. You can spend, but develop talent. You can spend, but preach consistency. You can spend, but develop leaders. You can spend, but demand excellence–not fame.
It can work. Please try it.
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the yankees spent over 250 million dollars on two pitchers last year (CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett) and they also signed one of the most coveted first baseman in the game to a 180 million dollar deal over 8 years too. I think it is safe to say that they are still “overspending”.
The difference Brian is that the Yankees followed up that spending spree with a world series ring. Imagine the pressure in NY if the Yankees had only got a wild card place and then lost in the first round of the playoffs. That is the scenario in Madrid where this season is shaping up to be no better than last year
I agree that both organizations are spending too much money and in Madrid’s case it hasn’t paid off yet and thus makes them look much more foolish then the Yanks who just won. My only point is that the Yankees have done things a certain way for their entire existence and that hasn’t changed recently and it never will change either! Just because they won last year doesn’t mean that they finally admitted that they shouldn’t spend stupid money anymore because in reality they spent more money then any other MLB club did last year and any year in their history for that matter. Having two starting pitchers as good as that is what made them champs especially considering they only went with a three man rotation in the playoffs. They won last year because they bought the best talent available in free agency and rode them to the championship. Other then Pettite not one of their starting pitchers had ever worn the pin stripes before or ever won a playoff game for the club. So although they won and Madrid hasn’t the theory to building a winner is really no different between the two teams! The only key difference is that the Yanks spent tons of money and won and Madrid hasn’t won anything yet. But the Yanks will always be buyers and so will Madrid, but there is no debate that the Yanks spending over 400 million dollars last year is the real reason why they are the champs. After all how many Yankees players did they really develop that weren’t already on the team in the last year? They purchased plenty of stars, but their isn’t one player on their team this year that was added because the organization “developed’ him into a champ over that small period of time. After all Joba Chamberlain (one of the few players on the team that was drafted and developed by the Yanks) was moved to the bullpen in the postseason and hardly ever pitched because of these key free agent additions.
I cant believe Stupid american Yankees is being compared to the a club which belongs to a sport which is the most watched and is called the most beautiful game. I dont even know who are Yankees, what they play and dont even give a rat’s arse to it.
So, intellectual people who are trying to give advise please stop comparing a mighty club with some cheap arse club(yankees) who can never make it big on the international stage.
Haha………Bloody Yankees!!