The Curse of modern day football
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In the Summer of 1986 when Sir Alex Ferguson was Employed as the New Manager of Manchester united by then just an Average Joe club in the English premier League. Liverpool were the Giants of the league as at the time in a golden era of Bill Shankly wining the league and the European Cup with Wreckless abandon and Finesse. In those year Patience to build a successful winning formula was Virtue. Alex Ferguson, a Fresh faced manager had to wait till the 92/93 season to win the League with a Set of home grown talent chiefly headed by the fleet Footed Ryan Giggs and Brilliant Paul Scholes who were the Core of the team. This team went on to dominate the English football Sphere for years with Fergie getting a Recipe for Success and Recycling of successful Teams.
Fast forward 1996 When Wenger was Appointed by Arsenal football club he also was afforded to revolutionized The Gunners by importing French talent and transforming a Famously defensive team to a team that plays the Total football the Cryuff Way. His team was able to dominate the league and Rival with an Equally strong and Successful team in Manchester united with their Peak coming in the 2003/04 invincible season.
The year 2003 birthed the beginning of an end to the wonderful Virtue of Patience when Roman Abranmovich a Shrewd Russian business brought Financially Ailing London Club Chelsea from Chairman Ken bates for a sum Estimated to be 300 million Pounds. He invested in the club whom wasa being by managed by Italian Claudio Rianeri by buying Established stars like Matej Kezman, Adrian Mutu. In that first season they had a Successful season : a Semifinal place in the Champions League and a 2nd place finish in the league to an invincible Arsenal team. Alas but this was not enough for the Profit oriented oligarch. He swiftly employed a Young Jose Mourinho who had just won it all at FC Porto including the Uefa Champions league in the just concluded 03/04 season. He was signed and given a Huge Transfer kit to bring in Winners which he promptly did and won the league grandly in his first season. But this was not enough as he was sacked at the beginning of his 4th season after a rock relationship with the owner during his third season. Since then Chelsea has gone on to employ 11 managers in less than 15 Years. This new way has brought his own level of success as they are now a major force in European football and they won the uefa champions league in 2012 in a dramatic night in Munich.
Same can also be said for Manchester City, bought by the Arabs in 2008,and they've gone from Mark Hughes to Roberto Mancini to Manuel Pellegrini and now Pep Guardiola. This way they've enjoyed success too with two League Trophies and a League cup.
This new Method is a menace on the development of Youth players, clubs are no longer Patient with their Young stars as they prefer to loan them of or sell them to lower clubs. As much as the Oil money from Russia and Arab has brought blessing and Excitement to the league it also has brought curse to the development of young Players as the managers are aware that the owners are trigger happy hence they don't want to take chance they play with already established stars at the expense of youth Development......
Its really a Curse