devil in me
Full Member
They certainly are a 'well rub club' in terms if their management/ownership structure. They have a manager, director of football (or similar) and owners who all work in tandem with each other. An identified system on the pitch and footballing people who can identify the correct players to fit that system and owners who will pay the money. Obviously they're backed by a state and it goes without saying that their success is all a bit meaningless, but in terms of how they operate, it's pretty much bang on for achieving success. The blueprint for Pep started long before he even arrived. It's seamless, and the total opposite to what we've being doing over the past 10 years. Hence the fact that we've spent very similar amounts of money, but whilst we have a mid table squad and win feck all, they have the best squad in Europe and win trophies season after season.