Some parallels with what our owners appear to be doing with regard to acquiring clubs and signing young players to sell on: RB Leipzig: How did Red Bull build a Champions League side from scratch? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51475532
Would possibly upset some but I wouldn't mind our lot selling us to Red Bull. No issue with the strip colours for a starter, The Red Bull Oakwell Arena sounds okay, already have a link with Liefering through Struber and a similar model for player recruitment and a club identity All good to me!
Been to Red Bull ring Spielberg Austria for moto gp (same owners) perfect stadia make Oakwell like that please
"We are looking for young, talented and hungry players," explains Krosche. "We are not willing to pay an enormous amount of money for so-called football stars, we want to find and develop the stars of tomorrow." Naby Keita, signed from Red Bull Salzburg, is the club's record signing at £27m and has since been sold to Liverpool for a £21m profit.
To say they're second in their top flight behind Bayern Munich £27m is peanuts. And a profit of £21m isn't to be sniffed at either. That's how you do it, not how our owners are doing it. (Obviously not saying we throw that kind of money around before anyone starts going mental).
The difference is they have invested & speculated at times, but have kept a similar strategy in terms of youth & resale value. We are just trying to do things on the cheap & thus far we are getting nowhere.
A fifth tier team a decade ago is unhappy theyre currently second? Christ. What are they unhappy about?
