
Originally Posted by
Taksin
By any standards, Ferguson was a tough act to follow for the owners. Very successful for a very long time, dominant personality. He probably gained more and more control of transfers (and everything else) as time went on. This, it appears to me, goes hand in hand with the board becoming weaker over this time, perhaps due to atrophy as Ferguson seemed to need no-one, but perhaps for other reasons.
My impression was the club was losing its way before he retired. In fact they let him retire twice, which didn't exactly promote stability. Anyway, it turns out Moyes wasn't that bad but the board hadn't got used to uncertainty or a new process and so their own indecision lead to what has now become a decade of mistakes. Much of that was under the advice of Ferguson. It looks like now they realise they have to do things themselves and what is happening is they are adopting the model of today. They are imitating us. Once, it took us over a decade to realise we had to imitate them, now the shoe is on the other foot.
LFC now has one of the two prevailing successful ownership models. United should be able to follow it and put a little more money into transfers (I wonder when that presumption will end). Basic maths suggests that they should be able to surpass us but our recruitment model is so good that they actually have quite a lot of catching up to do. They will have to get seriously organised to be able to surpass us - that is my belief. That's because we are seriously organised.
An organised LFC is harder to beat than another club that is well organised for a number of reasons. The only way you can beat us is to way overspend your income, selling the soul of your club in the process, and get some help from VAR officials along the way.
This argument exists at every club.
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