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I don't know what's hard to understand? is it because you're foreign? torresgoalgoals? (I joke you little cutiepie)
Quote from IAN
"Because they make up the best front 3 in world football ?"
Then you go on to say so was pele and coutinho-
Best 3 in the world? - hence "are you drunk" coutinho in the same sentence? as pele / best in the world?
Or have I misread ?? - but why would you say so was pele coutinho etc when Ian just said what he did.
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And yes, of course it doesn't guarantee we'll find the same quality for the same price again. No guarantees in football.
However, it shows that it can be done and we've been amazing in the past transfer windows. No reason to shift away from the strategy that's made us a force to be reckoned with once more.
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Ok but then it is all rather ambiguous.
I would be inclined to ask - who's strategy is it? Klopp OR perhaps a committee inside the club?
Might be a good time to also ask what you think changed at United after that Mark Robins goal.. Was the club strategy ( or Fergusons ) good at that point? Did it change after that goal? did United suddenly change strategy when Ferguson stood down?
Were Napoli amazingly well run when they earmarked the GOAT to come and play for them? Was it club strategy that took them to the only league titles they ever won.. or perhaps the absolute brilliance of Diego Maradona..?
Was Liverpool FC's strategy the major reason why Shankly took us from the second tier and to the very top? Wasn't it Bill Shankly the manager? His vision and the projection of his will and philosophy running right through the club?
Arsenal - Was it Wenger or the club strategy?
I am not saying I know BTW just putting this out there
I am leaning towards the belief that the only genuine strategy (beyond hitting the jackpot with a manager) that can almost guarantee success is the pumping in of ridiculous amounts of money allowing you to buy whoever you want..
Last edited by Steveo; 24th September 2020 at 12:49 PM.
I mean... yeah, of course it's ambiguous, what did you expect? It'd be naive to even hope to be able to point to a single thing / entitiy / aspect of a football club and proclaim "there, that's why they won things".
Even asking whose strategy it is might be a tad simplistic. It's not as if there's one big boss (or committee of bosses) sitting up there in the clouds saying "this is what we'll do" and everyone following their words to the letter. Different figures inside the club work together to come up with a way forward - at least that's the impression LFC leaves on me. Klopp, Lijnders, Edwards, Moore (or whoever replaced him) and many more are all a part of that. The notion that you can view strategy and the people who shape it as two separate entities is just wrong. When Klopp leaves the club and many of those who determine the club's actions will remain. Then we might start to see what exactly Klopp's input was. Or better yet - how the club's strategy changed when he joined might give us a decent indicator of what role he plays there (modulo other changes at the same time).
Whatever strategy made Napoli sign the overrated junky worked out for them, at least domestically. Whether or not it was a good idea at the time is anyone's guess. Too much info would be needed to pass judgement on that.
Edit: Even saying something like "strategy" requires a lot of explanation. Strategy pertaining to what? It's huge and very convoluted topic. It's natural that we can't understand it - I don't know how to characterise ours for example and you can't see past it being tantamount to hitting the jackpot with a manager.
Last edited by Balinkay; 24th September 2020 at 01:20 PM.
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