JoeMercer'sWay
Well-Known Member
hilts said:
Stop going on about fucking Rome!!! FFS!!! Rome was a completely seperate and irrelevant empire for crying out loud, we are a football team, if you actually had the sense to try and compare what we need to do to a 50's Real Madrid, or a 70-80's Liverpool, but you forget that both of those were already established top clubs, you also forget that Madrid only have and have had consistent competition from Barcelona, and their famous owner Santiago Bernabeu Yeste helped create the UEFA Champions League, so they have top level history stemming over half a century. Liverpool appointed Bill Shankly, and was followed by Bob Paisley, and both lead Liverpool to astounding success over a long period of stable leadership, but Liverpool were one of the top dogs and it so happened they found two great managers, do we have that, it's a big question.
My point is that Liverpool and Real Madrid were already established clubs and you have to look at the timing of things. We are in a far more congested and competitive market fighting the already established names of teams who have trophy cabinets as big as our club store, we have far more competition than they did when they achieved success. The Roman Empire came off the back of the Roman Republic, it wasn't built in a day, it was built as a structure to dominate over several centuries, it came about at the opportune time. Look at Hitler, he wanted a comparable scenario but at the end of the day his rivals were bigger than him, and beat him. City have bigger rivals, and in Mark Hughes do we have a man capable of bringing us to the top table? we haven't come about at the best time we could have, but we need to act fast, because UEFA are changing rules and we need to be in a position to cope and still be competitive at the top level, we don't have the time the Roman Empire had, not that it's relevant, but now we have an opportunity and we have to take it NOW, not in 5 or 10 years time, by then it could be too late.
The structure is vital, but ours is a combination of 2 eras, the previous of which has been decimated by the man appointed by it, for a new structure that requires experienced leadership and a strong structure, but it's been built on the regime of a management team appointed to satisfy the requirements of the old City, who have no experience of what our club now demands. I hope we succeed, but for the life of me I don't understand how we will on recent yet sustained form.