The risk is far too high for a club that wants to compete consistently at the highest level to use the model that Dortmund and Atletico have been successful with in recent years. The biggest price pay a premium for the (relative) security of knowing that they get a top class player, as opposed to taking punts on lesser known players who may or may not succeed. And that's not to say that we haven't made a lot of punts in the last five to ten years, they just haven't worked out.
At the end of the day, paying the premium is the model that works best if you want to consistently compete at the highest levels. You just need the financial muscle to pull it off, in terms of both liquidity and income.
I agree with this aswell, yet when a club like Dortmund or Atletico are getting better results with a riskier strategy than something is wrong. I agree a big club competitng for a price needs to spend and spend big and not put all their hope on young experinced players but go for the best of the best. But our money goest to Berbatov, Nani, Anderson, Smalling, Jones, Young, Valencia, RVP, Kagawa, Fellaini and at the end of the day these players turn out not be good enough or they don't fit in the system. If we want as a big club and go for the safe strategy of spending big, than atleast do it on the right type of players. And not just players, also coaches. This club has failed itself and alot of people say it is impossible to compete with the likes of Bayern or Real or Barca, but teams like Atletico, Dortmund prove this is far from true, if you just do the right things, bring in the right players, play the correct way, hire the right coach. Why on earth can't a team like United figure out what is the meaning of those words right and correct, in todays world of football, while so many other teams, with far less resources can ?
Commercially we are topclub, best in the world, fantastic management on that part, really people that know what they are doing. But sportively, not so sure, in fact without SAF there to rely on we are a pretty sad bunch of losers. It has always been the same at this club, oh we aren't spending our money on this or that player (incert any name we have been linked with over the past couple of years: Di Maria, Bale, Modric, Hazard, Silva, Vidal, Sanchez, Fabregas, Thiago, Eriksen, Strootman, Coentrao, Lewandowski, you name it) doesn't matter, I trust in SAF, he knows best, we are still winning, all is good as long as SAF is here. Now that SAF is gone, look in what kind of an absolute mess we are in, there is only 1 topclub in the world that is doing worse than us and that is Milan and in fact they can call in their financial problems as a legitimate reason, what is our reason for being so absolute crap on sportive decision making ? Now again, so many fools at the club calling out for Giggs over LVG (after the downfall under Moyes), really this is the stuff that makes my skin crawl and makes me think that the sportive side of this club is ran by absolute morrons.
We are supposed to be on the same level in terms of finances and being an attractive club as Bayern, Real and Barcelona, why do I always have a feeling any player that is linked with them 'll chose them over us ? Why are they on top of their league and we 7th ? Why are they considered favorites if we play versus them in a CL tie, why do people awe over their football and not over ours ? Why are they consistently in or around CL finals and we're not ? The last couple of years we have just slid down the sportive ladder, why is that ? Lack of funds, no, lack of history, no, what do we lack I ask you ? Capable people to run a club like this, the way it is supposed to be ran, that is what we lack. (again sportive side, commercially we are brilliant)
