Boavista
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I don't disagree on the fact that these teams haven't earned their success through their own work as much, but one thing I don't really like is this excessive reverence for the old money clubs. In many ways the clubs that aren't backed by billionaires but still have enough money to compete every year also benefit from having been successful at the right time, when football began commercialising. That applies to United, it applies to Bayern, and others too. All the successful teams that came before the money poured in for instance kind of missed out on that. Any clubs that have built good teams after these clubs already accumulated significant wealth are just playing catchup all the time, in a never ending cycle of trying to assemble a good team that then breaks apart again.It always annoys me when an Englishmen talks about tyranies, look in the fecking mirror.
My annoyance with PSG and City is the fact that both these clubs were inconsequential on the European and domestic stage before a couple of rich arseholes decided to throw money at them and now they're one of the best clubs in Europe. It destroys the idea of building your club and dimishes the work done by the other great European teams to get where they are today. Any fecking club can be a European super club in a few years if another rich guy decides he wants to play football manager with them.
So there is an element of the elite teams not just doing things right, but doing them right at the right time. It's like older generations with money, who've had the good fortune of making money through real estate when that was still affordable.