So all those narratives of talent, hard work, team cohesiveness, tactical genius, strength of character, risk vs reward are rubbish. Who cares about the attack or Nelli's numbers? It's money baby. What beautiful game? Want to win the PL? Forget the transfer window, AFC need to sack their CEO and get one with more commercial acumen who can raise revenue. Oh wait...
Realistically what is the most important thing in the game? Talent
A smaller team can and does find talented players but what happens? They tend to move up the food chain to clubs with more money, who can buy out their contract at the previous club and pay them wages on par with their talent.
In a single game hard work, cohesiveness, tactics, all that can make the marginal difference so they shouldn't be ignored.
Is revenue the ultimate factor, obviously not. United are a prime example of it, but they also have such a built in advantage that even at their worse they are a midtable club.
Arsenal are a rich team but they are not the richest team. If we want to see them win things which I think we all do, things kind of all need to align just right to overcome the structural disadvantage of not just being able to throw money at the problems. So for Arsenal those things might be more important because they need to have those as well as hitting on the moves they make.
So all those narratives of talent, hard work, team cohesiveness, tactical genius, strength of character, risk vs reward are rubbish. Who cares about the attack or Nelli's numbers? It's money baby. What beautiful game? Want to win the PL? Forget the transfer window, AFC need to sack their CEO and get one with more commercial acumen who can raise revenue. Oh wait...
It is not that those things don't matter they do.
Realistically what is the most important thing in the game? Talent
A smaller team can and does find talented players but what happens? They tend to move up the food chain to clubs with more money, who can buy out their contract at the previous club and pay them wages on par with their talent.
In a single game hard work, cohesiveness, tactics, all that can make the marginal difference so they shouldn't be ignored.
Is revenue the ultimate factor, obviously not. United are a prime example of it, but they also have such a built in advantage that even at their worse they are a midtable club.
Arsenal are a rich team but they are not the richest team. If we want to see them win things which I think we all do, things kind of all need to align just right to overcome the structural disadvantage of not just being able to throw money at the problems. So for Arsenal those things might be more important because they need to have those as well as hitting on the moves they make.
It’s not the only thing but it is unfortunately one of the biggest things.