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Before I begin the post, I should perhaps mention (after a few not so encouraging comments) the methodology that I use to compare different clubs at the elite level (and I also think that this is the only viable methodology that can be relied upon). Otherwise, people can have all kinds of different interpretations about which club could have been the best or which player could have been the best.
The methodology that I use is strictly upon what has actually happened not what could have happened. Who could have been the best player or which club could have won the most major trophies.
Real Madrid are obviously the most successful club at the elite level and there is little evidence to suggest something otherwise. Real Madrid beat Manchester United’s Busby Babes a year before their plane crashed. Real Madrid also consistently beat Manchester United along with clubs like AC Milan and the rest.
Some Manchester United fans think that the busby babes could have stopped that great Real Madrid side from winning 5 consecutive champions League titles. Well, again, that is a big COULD. Real Madrid were the best and are still one of the top 3 clubs in the world in terms of on pitch performance.
The Busby Babes died. End of that. What they could have done or could not have done is something that will never be known. The only thing that anyone can discuss about this issue is the one meeting Real Madrid had with the busby babes. Real Madrid beat them bad in that Champions League meeting andthebusbybabescouldnotwinagainstthatRealMadrid neither at home nor away.
Facts are facts. Real Madrid has won the most titles in Champions League and thus it is the club with the most dominance. Why did Real Madrid dominate or why they could not dominate so much in the last decade is something that is not related to this post.
When comparing clubs, I think it is of vital importance that everyone should be objective rather than subjective. Objectivity is the only way that can give us a meaningful answer to which club is the better one between Real Madrid and Manchester United.
Coming back to the busby babes point. The only question I ask to Manchester United fans is that, if they were that good then why were they 6 points behind (with 14 games left of the whole season) a club that goesbythenameofWolverhamptonWandererswhoweretheleagueleaders.Clearly,theywerenotthatgood.RealMadridwouldhavebeatenthecrapoutofbusbybabeshadtheymetmorethan
real won 5 consecutive champions league in past look at last 10 years of their champions league record its worse than any other top teams instead they buy superstars who delievers them nothing take out ronaldo from your team you will have to wait another ten years to win champions league
Man Utd never bought Tevez (they loaned him and didnt take up the option to buy because of the inflated price and the excessive demands from the agent. My point exactly, yes Utd buy players like all teams but they pay what their finances allow not. Utd are not in debt because of wages or buying players they’re in debt because the owners put them in debt to buy the club. Utd are one of the best run clubs in the world there wage bill is less than 50% of the turnover which is the best of all the top clubs in the world. Barca pay more wages with Madrid in 2nd and Man City 3rd. none of these clubs could can afford the money they pay out and the money they pay Agents and Fees for players. I’ll take Utd any day over dodgey Madrid!
!Real Madrid have been bailed out of debt more times by Spanish banks. The fact remains that they live well above their means and this is why they can buy the best players. They care little about spending 80 million pounds (that they cant afford) on Ronaldo and giving him 250,000 a week in wages. This is why they have been so successful. Man City can now do the same and pay well above the going rate. You talk about Man Utd’s debt as if it’s something Utd have done to get themselves into. The fact is the club was bought and the new owners put the debt in the clubs name, effectively Utd bought themselves for the Glazers. Madrid are in debt because they over spend on players and wages, buying up the worlds best players. Everything Man Utd have won has been won from funds and players bought with money they generate and with players they produced through their own academy. Chelsea/Man City have sugar daddies that buy their success with their vast personal fortune’s. Madrid just have no regard for fair play and I have no respect for them. Like everyone else outside Madrid I have much more respect for Barca and the way they conduct their business. For me it’s manufactured and unfair success or success at any cost (even if we cant afford it) and a “someone will bail us out attitude. Despicable really
I am going to make this short:
Barcelona weakened all other spanish sides by buying out Villa, Alves, Eto’o.
They also bought huge players such as Fabregas,henry,zlatan.
Real Madrid are just able to do it on a bigger scale than anyone else and that is why some people complain.
Manchester United bought Rooney from everton the season after he scored a cracker against Chelsea.
Manchester United also bought off Ronaldo, Nani, Tevez, Berbatov, Smith.
Every team does that to the scale that its finances allows it to.
In ‘making it short’, you did not address the point at all. This is Real Madrid v. Manchester United. Don’t drag Barcelona or any other team into it. Real Madrid have been bailed out of debt multiple times by Spanish banks. Yet they continue to spend on a very large scale. Is this not living beyond your means?
Meanwhile, United, who had debt *unnecessarily imposed* on them by new owners, continue to spend only from money they generate, while also paying off the debt.
I’d say not only is United’s financial policy far better, Madrid’s policy is immoral, as it is misusing public money. Your turn to argue otherwise.
Real Madrid have not paid any tax. Their government allowed it.BTW we as british Tax payers will be bailing them out. Also real madrid were in terrible dept , sold thier training ground to Madrid LA for over £2oo Million and still use it.