Wow, to a German it is quite surprising Gladbach is not in this list. Even though I’m not a supporter, it is undisputed that it is one of the best run clubs, at least in Germany.
Rb leipzig is a honorable mention as well, imagine that team if they have transferred haaland to leipzig instead of dortmund since both clubs are run by red bull.
@Subha V if you would get the money Leipzig got, your team wouldn't probably be able to to get into the Champions-League semi-finals after only ten years and which expensive players has Leipzig signed?
I heard Saarbrücken , hoffenheim and a few others are doing very well to , but i think Mönchengladbach imo is a way bigger club then the ones on this list :)
And selling Harry Maguire for £85 million was one of the best deals of the decade, anywhere, but especially for Leicester. City had a ready made replacement in Söyüncü.
@@jyt9007 If it's obvious does that mean it is not worth a mention? It is like a list of famous English teams playing in red shirts and not mentioning Liverpool and Manchester United, You could say that was "too obvious" to mention according to your logic.
What about Borussia Mönchengladbach. From a relegation game in 2011 to their first CL Round of 16 since 1977 in 2020. In my opinion that has to be an honorable mention at least.
@@christianbmg6374 I know everybody hates on Hoffenheim, but many people don't look at the numbers. Over the last 5 years the club has had a financial surplus of 121 Million €, without a single year in the negative. If that isn't well run I don't know what is.
@@christianbmg6374 ja, manche hier finden Leipzig und Salzburg toll (weiß nicht ob das Deutsche sind) und merken nicht das die jedes Jahr 100 Mio kriegen und Farm Clubs auf allen Kontinenten haben
To not include any Bundesliga team, when the bigest quality of many teams in the Bundesliga has always been how well they were ran, is quite interesting to say the least. Just look at Freiburg, Hoffenheim or Gladbach for example.
Juventus easily have been better run by them. From relegation in 2007 to 650 million yearly profits and 2 champions League finals. And the ability to bring a player of cr7 s calibre. They are easily better than bayern
@Jan FCB what is the Bayern model delusional. They have more balloon d ors winners than Bayern have . Just because hansi flick worked his magic Bayern are flying high. This was the same team that went out to Liverpool in round of 16.so please stfu. Braindead.
It would be pretty straightforward Play a season find the best players of that season See the age of those players Buy As a result weaken the opposing teams and the league Ps: I'm just joking and highlighting in general on what they do in terms of transfer investments and effects on the league . Don't come to me with your guns and ask what do you know etc and it's a great club how dare you etc. This is an opinion which can be either taken or left out.
I hoped Club Bruges would be in this list, the owners did an amazing job since taking over, they now have one of the best training and youth facilities in Europe
They were never a well run club since the mid 2000s when the glazers took over, sir Alex was just a genius who managed to win titles with terrible recruitment.
United are run shockingly badly and are bleeding cash to the Greedy Glazers on a daily basis. Their transfer business is a joke (Fernandes excepted in recent years).
@@pelethehedgehog9444 If you look into it you will see that the Glazers are extracting a substantial income from the club in the form of annual interest payments. It runs into tens of millions annually. I call that bleeding cash even if you don't. Most owners, even Abramovich, have the decency to put money into the club, not take it out.
Quite a few Japanese clubs are really well run, the league as a whole has developed leaps and bounds in the last 30 or so years when the current iteration began. Kawasaki, Yokohama, Urawa and Kashima are some noteworthy examples to look into if anyone is interested
This was a great video and now I want to see a video like this for every continent, since this was all european clubs. Would be interesting to see 7 best run clubs in Asia, South America, Africa etc.
I don't know why comment section is filled with silly questions without even seeing the full video.. Great video bro..I always get knowledge and enjoyment from your videos.Keep it up.
One more thing, I like to through this video in faces of haters of Messi whenever they say 'Eibarman'... Which I feel now as a compliment.. scoring against the Best run 'small' team in the world of football
Hey man, love the vids, good channel! I was overwhelmed when you mention Leganés as a well run club, I like the Pepineros very much, would love to see a stand alone video of them! Keep on rocking! Cheers mate!
Aston Villa..weve come back from near bankruptcy to a middle table team with great owners great facilities great backroom staff great manager and captain local geezers who both support villa... Really don't know how things could improve so dramatically in just a couple of years... Incredible.. Villans deserve it after all the years of pain... Just for our banter and piss take alone we are a top club
Have you ever looked into Borussia Mönchengladbach? They have been slowly growing their club from a mid table team to a team that gets to the championsleague last 16. Their recruiting is brilliant and they probably have the best manager in german football. Very interesting club structure and a very loveable fan scene. Might be worth a look, very interesting :D
You could do a video on Vicente del Bosque, probably the most underrated manager of his generation. He's literally the only manager to win the UCL (2000, 2002), World Cup (2010), and the Euros (2012) but nobody talks about him.
You a true Man of Culture Alfie, Eibar are definitely a shining beacon in this era where storied footballing giants are being run in the most irresponsible ways possible. My video suggestion, a video profile of Godfrey Chitalu, the man who scored 107 goals in a calendar year.
AZ Alkmaar deserves a spot in this. Competing both in domestic and European football with clubs with 4× their budget (Ajax, PSV) or even 7× (Napoli/Manchester United). One of the best youth academies in the world, the selection is worth €120 000 000 in total while biggest transfer was only 2.6 million. This is the starting XI: GK: 500k from Genk LB: Own youth CB: Own youth CB: Free transfer from Aston Villa (was own youth) RB: 800k from Rosenborg BK CM: 800k from Rosenborg BK CM: Own Youth (Captain) AM: 2 million from Ajax LW: 2.2 million from Elfsborg BK ST: Own Youth RW: Own Youth
Following on from what you said about Ligue 1 and Rennais, would love to see a video about the league in general, and why it tends to be so looked down upon in recent years
FC Midtjylland and Matthew Benham piqued my interest in Brentford: Shiny new stadium, selling Ollie Watkins to Villa. Sounds like a story given its proximity to London, and its super-clubs, no?
Well thought out video. I feel Atalanta deserved and honourable mention. Ajax are known to have the best youth academy but not surely how they are doing financially. Another thing to add regarding Sassuolo is they are one of very few teams in Serie A to actually own their Stadium.
You probably just gave Beverley one of the biggest shoutouts it has ever received, it’s cool to see that someone from where I’m from can succeed like you have :)
I'm a bit disappointed Borussia Mönchengladbach isn't even a honorable mention when they accomplished a lot with very little over the last 10 years going from almost being relegated to a regular contender for Europe and probably the 4th or 5th best club in Germany behind Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig and maybe Leverkusen. While getting a lot of money in the transfer market with the sells of Reus, Ter Stegen, Xhaka, Dante to name a few examples
Would love to see a video on how Midtjylland's unorthodox methods havw made them a giant in Danish football. Especially with their community projects and their work in improving various African towns
Nice video, but I think you forgot a team: SC Braga. Before the turn of the century they weren't even that great in the portuguese league, more of a mid-tabble team, usually finishing 7th-10th, and only 1 portuguese cup as silverware. Since 2003-2004, when their current president got in charge, António Salvador, they managed to establish themselves as the 4th strongest portuguese team with 9x4th place, 2x3rd, 1x2nd, in 17 seasons. Won 1 portuguese cup and 2 league cups. Got into Champions League Group Stage twice (1x3rd, 1x4th) Got into the group stage of Europa League(or were dropouts from Champions) 10 times, getting past the group stage 9 times out of 10, even managing to get to the Europa League final in 2010/2011, in a amazing campaign were they started in the Champions League finishing third on the group with 9 points, went to the Europa League and even knocked out Liverpool but ended losing 1-0 in the final to Porto. They also got a new stadium with the Euro 2004. Currently, they are focusing more and more into developing youngsters, and are starting to get good results with the likes of Francisco Trincão who left for Barcelona this past summer for a record breaking sell for the club of around 30M€. Quite impressive considering many of those years they had quite low budgets (10M or less) and their home city has around 200k people. It isn't just a good season, but consistent results, fruit of a good management. From portuguese mid-table mediocrity to Europa League knock-out stages regulars, I feel like they have over achieved more than pretty much any club on this list, but not even a honorable mention.
How are Leicester not here? Outstanding recruitment which never fails to replace the very big sales of recent times. A high class academy. Are also moving on to a fantastic training ground. Were in the championship less than a decade ago
Can you do a video on the sports investment vehicle headed by the guy from Moneyball that was recently launched. I'd love to get your thoughts on the complete corporatization of football.
As an atleti fan I would like to know your take on atletis current board the one who took over since 2003 hitc sevens , Would like to know more about our board and the way they ran the club
Completely changed our fortunes. Compared to the players and state of the club in 2003 to 2013 with Simeone and now 2020. New stadium, challenging for the league again, playing better football, and with a young team again. Not to mention us still labeled as a "selling club" and Simeone had to transition from the Old Guard between 2017-2019. It's crazy
@@mikefaican6763 But I think most people would agree that we arent that " Selling club " Anymore we have really improved in that regard we have kept the same generation for years 2014-2019 ( Which was a year of choas and transition year for us ) so we had to sell 2 or 3 key players to completely overhaul the squad , We even kept greizmann from barca for a year which is a huge improvement but sometimes I feel like the board could do better especially since a lot of important figures in spain support atleti and would like to takeover the team but I mean if you put it that way this board could be good I guess not sure really tho would like input of some netrual fans who dont support atleti since they are not really known much besides few fans who do research on the boards work
In this and other worlds,I am 3rd liker of this video and I fully agree with these 7 respective football clubs which are the best run football clubs but I am fully impressed by Real Sociedad's best run of form so far this season with their tactical gameplans and good recruitments,good friends!!!:-D
As a Brighton and Schalke fan who's had to endure a torrid 2020 on the pitch, I'm glad to finally get a slight win in a honourable mention for the Seagulls, let's hope the xPts start becoming real ones and I don't have to deal with two relegation battles in 2021
Honorable Mention Ajax: certainly worth a mention / video. World power in the 70s. World power in mid 90s. Players walking out of the club for free. Non-football directors in the board in the 2000's. Cruyff's vision and the pro and con Cruyff camps leading to tough years. And then they got Overmars and v.d. Sar in. Now they are making 100s of millions (de Jong, de Ligt, vd Beek, Davinson Sanchez, but also Milik etc). Great youth academy. European 'success' in the last 6 years. Being able to compete with the Real Madrid in acquiring youth talent from South America. But also the tragic of Nouri. And now the first example of a talent, walking out of the club for free because of the success of Ajax an less of a chance of playing (Brobby (by Raiola) to RB Leipzig). Will it be a downwards spiral; or will it become the Dutch Bayern Munich.
should do a video on luton town when they got promoted to championship with hull 15 years ago and the fall and return of the club to the confrance and back, club is doping well in championship despite a mid team league 1 budget
Leicester over the past 5 or 6 years has seemingly been run very well (maybe even longer for all I know). They have sold a handful of players like Kante, Drinkwater, Mahrez, Maguire, and Chilwell for big profits (over 300 million in transfer fees just for those five players), have been pretty intelligent in many of their additions (if Leicester sold Maddison, Söyüncü, Ricardo, and Ndidi for their current market values they would make a combined 95 million in profit from what they paid to acquire them all within the past few seasons), and they still have a few guys around from that Premier League title-winning side playing a bit like it's still 2015 in Vardy, Schmeichel, and to a degree Fuchs and Albrighton. Really the only misses they've had in the past few years have been Slimani, Iheanacho, and Perez, but the latter two have at least contributed somewhat and still have a bit of resale value if the club were to take that route. All in all given their continued competitiveness and staying power in the league, holding their own when given opportunities in Europe, the fact their ground seems to be one of the more raucous in the league when there isn't a pandemic ongoing (and is still a relatively newer stadium), and their profitability in the market, I thought they would have been a shoe-in for this list, or at least get a shout-out.
Would be interested in a full length Ajax profile. Superb club in terms of football philosophy and financial model. A conveyor belt of quality footballers coming through their academy.
I think atalanta deserve a spot in this list and I'd love Alfie should make a video about them because they have been operating under a small transfer budget, made incredible signings like Gomez and ilicic. And they have also have a great academy and recruitment system. So judging by there performances lately they deserve a video
Southampton is a good honourable mention. Since 2011 they've balanced the books and bar Chelsea have the the best debt/profit margin. Plus the transfer policy has brought massive success with a great youth system
I'd love watching a series of more in depth videos about how these well ran clubs are run. Most of these, I knew, but I assume there's more to the story and I'm a sucker for sustainability and (relative) success. :)
How about a video covering seven different dream line-ups. Build each with unique formations and no overlapping players. The teams could also hypothetically be in the same league, hopefully adding more purpose and considering to the structures. Then, which team would win a 24 game season? Thanks for the excellent content!
That's easy. Until 19 years old our policy is virtually the same: homegrown players from the Basque Country including the french Basque Country. In the reserves team or "B" side (called filial in spanish) we sometimes open our hand signing promising spanish players and foreign players, but it's a rare case. This year we've done it more frequently because we are the only reserve team competing in the strong "Segunda division" (second tier) since we did it last time 60 years ago. So we've loaned a pair of youngsters from Atletico and Malaga and signed the slovakian Pokorny from Salzburg. The rest are Zubieta products, even our manager, the famous Xabi Alonso.
Sassuolo are actually incredible. they were first promoted 7 years ago and are competing for European places. Berardi would be able to walk into most XI in the europa league and some CL teams, Locatelli would walk on to almost every team in the world, and the rest of the players were all shrewd signings they can flip at will.
If I had to throw a MLS team in this bunch, I would have to go with either Seattle Sounders, Sporting KC, Portland Timbers or Toronto FC. Those 4 clubs are just so well run and seem like perennial contenders within their conferences and for the MLS Cup
I'd be nice if you did a series about clubs with good youth academies. Teams that play with a lot of youths and have sold them well. These clubs are good examples, but there are many others in brazil, england, germany and so on.
Surely a bit biased but really surprised Gladbach is not on the list. Barely survived in the Bundesliga in 2011 against Bochum in the Playoffs, then CL Playoffs a year later. Since then we played several times in Europe, we made it through a not so easy Group with Inter, Real and Donezk and sold players like Reus, Dante (Triple winner with Bayern), Xhaka, ter Stegen, Kruse, Dahoud, Hazard and so on. Dahoud and ter Stegen came through our youth academy, Patrick Herrmann came through it as well and has passed Günter Netzer in regards of most games for our club. Max Eberl (Manager) has been doing an outstanding job considering all this and that we were almost bankrupt in the early 00's. Now we could lose our coach to Dortmund (yeah, super thrilled about losing another part of our success to THAT Borussia...) and players like Neuhaus, Zakaria, Thuram and Elvedi are also very interesting for a lot good clubs in Europe (personally I think Zak will leave for Bayern and Neuhaus will leave next season for a very big club. He is like a younger, more dynamic version of Kroos).
Last time I was this early, Schalke was a well-run club
Damn, that was a really long time ago
well-ran
bruh
@@lenninho5113 well run
They never were
7 most controversial transfers. Criteria: breaching fifa rules, signing for hated rivals, ridiculous fee etc.
sol campbell
carlos tevez
harry maguire
You mean Barcelona transfers
@@jekro1 yes
Cole
LMAO, All of the Neymar transfers
Wow, to a German it is quite surprising Gladbach is not in this list. Even though I’m not a supporter, it is undisputed that it is one of the best run clubs, at least in Germany.
It is a bigger club than the clubs mentioned here.
@@abhinandanbanerjee5471 Yes I think so too, just wondered that more obvious one like Bayern and Dortmund were mentioned
Rb leipzig is a honorable mention as well, imagine that team if they have transferred haaland to leipzig instead of dortmund since both clubs are run by red bull.
@Subha V if you would get the money Leipzig got, your team wouldn't probably be able to to get into the Champions-League semi-finals after only ten years and which expensive players has Leipzig signed?
I heard Saarbrücken , hoffenheim and a few others are doing very well to ,
but i think Mönchengladbach imo is a way bigger club then the ones on this list :)
Leceister is a mention they've sold a lot of good players like kante chilwell Mahrez and always find the best replacements for small amounts
Its still wat to big of a club to be featured in the list , in my opinion its still a worldclass team , altough it doesn't look like it
@@rodeduivel1000 Liverpool and Tottenham got honourable mentions though
And selling Harry Maguire for £85 million was one of the best deals of the decade, anywhere, but especially for Leicester. City had a ready made replacement in Söyüncü.
Too Obvious
@@jyt9007 If it's obvious does that mean it is not worth a mention? It is like a list of famous English teams playing in red shirts and not mentioning Liverpool and Manchester United, You could say that was "too obvious" to mention according to your logic.
For me Gladbach and atalanta should be in in this list. Would also like to see a video about Gladbach in the Last 10 years
its a total joke not having gladbach in this video...
Day 54: Final East German First League teams, where are they now?
Good idea !
Good video idea
Very good idea
Thats a banging idea bro
I've liked this comment for 54 days straight, how is it still not done?
7 players whose football career is overshadowed by their other activities (eg: Keane, becks)
They aren’t overshadowed by any means lmao
@@edssss9384 Beckham's is to be fair
Roy keane might chat lots of shit now as a pundit but he was an astonishing and consistent player
@@sonny7194 True af
Surprised no one replied Bale and his golf
Leicester City should be definitely up there
And atalanta
Ac Milan
Aston villa
@@1minuteand40secondsoffifar3 Slow down, they just got good again. They were crippled by debt just a while ago.
Liverpool definitely should.
What about Borussia Mönchengladbach. From a relegation game in 2011 to their first CL Round of 16 since 1977 in 2020. In my opinion that has to be an honorable mention at least.
Yessss Real Sociedad! 2 years ago in class I made an oral presentation about them and even the teachers made fun of me.. looks who's laughing now!
Presentation on a football club. You have a great school
@@rachitagrawal8058 Your teachers sound strict. I did a entire months project on FC Barcelona only for them to let me down in the UCL every year 😂
I would get full marks if we had such projects
clever guy
3 ex spanish internationals. Silva, Monreal and Illarramendi, 2 current internationals: Merino and Oyarzabal. 5 under 21.
Gotta admit Most of La Liga def didnt expect sociedad to be this good
Leicester also deserve a mention...
I would add Hoffenheim and Freiburg as honorable mentions from the Bundesliga
Hoffenheim??? ????
@@christianbmg6374 I know everybody hates on Hoffenheim, but many people don't look at the numbers. Over the last 5 years the club has had a financial surplus of 121 Million €, without a single year in the negative. If that isn't well run I don't know what is.
@@Otto910 wow they have an Investor who spend this Money
@@christianbmg6374 ja, manche hier finden Leipzig und Salzburg toll (weiß nicht ob das Deutsche sind) und merken nicht das die jedes Jahr 100 Mio kriegen und Farm Clubs auf allen Kontinenten haben
To not include any Bundesliga team, when the bigest quality of many teams in the Bundesliga has always been how well they were ran, is quite interesting to say the least. Just look at Freiburg, Hoffenheim or Gladbach for example.
you can definitely include union berlin atm
Make an entire video dedicated to Bayern, wouldn’t mind it going over 20mins. It’s worth the watch . Track them from 2008 to now.
Yes ! Great idea. I would be really interested in that one
Horrid idea
@@SuperMyslayer y is it a horrid idea?
Juventus easily have been better run by them. From relegation in 2007 to 650 million yearly profits and 2 champions League finals. And the ability to bring a player of cr7 s calibre. They are easily better than bayern
@Jan FCB what is the Bayern model delusional. They have more balloon d ors winners than Bayern have . Just because hansi flick worked his magic Bayern are flying high. This was the same team that went out to Liverpool in round of 16.so please stfu. Braindead.
Please do a video about Ajax and their youth system :)
A video about how F.C. Bayern run their club would be awsome to see.
@Elijah Edric Guinto didn't bundesliga already do that?
*tifo
It would be pretty straightforward
Play a season
find the best players of that season
See the age of those players
Buy
As a result weaken the opposing teams and the league
Ps: I'm just joking and highlighting in general on what they do in terms of transfer investments and effects on the league . Don't come to me with your guns and ask what do you know etc and it's a great club how dare you etc. This is an opinion which can be either taken or left out.
@Elijah Edric Guinto Rabona tv did a video on that
I hoped Club Bruges would be in this list, the owners did an amazing job since taking over, they now have one of the best training and youth facilities in Europe
Along with Genk who have done some amazing recruiting and then selling on for profit in recent years.
Day 1: The best sporting directors in football.
I'd love to see a video about the dual ownership of Midjytlland and Brentford and their recent success
Last time I was this early, Man U was a well-runned club
They were never a well run club since the mid 2000s when the glazers took over, sir Alex was just a genius who managed to win titles with terrible recruitment.
@@jensen6537 Last time they were well run was arguably during the Busby babes era
United are run shockingly badly and are bleeding cash to the Greedy Glazers on a daily basis. Their transfer business is a joke (Fernandes excepted in recent years).
@@richardcory5024 Except they are not bleeding cash to the glazers. The glazers have not used their money to help the club
@@pelethehedgehog9444 If you look into it you will see that the Glazers are extracting a substantial income from the club in the form of annual interest payments. It runs into tens of millions annually. I call that bleeding cash even if you don't. Most owners, even Abramovich, have the decency to put money into the club, not take it out.
The best youth academy's in the world in the last 10/20 years !?!?
Quite a few Japanese clubs are really well run, the league as a whole has developed leaps and bounds in the last 30 or so years when the current iteration began. Kawasaki, Yokohama, Urawa and Kashima are some noteworthy examples to look into if anyone is interested
am I the only one who would actually love to see an in-depth video on Eibar . I mean moo
This was a great video and now I want to see a video like this for every continent, since this was all european clubs. Would be interesting to see 7 best run clubs in Asia, South America, Africa etc.
I don't know why comment section is filled with silly questions without even seeing the full video..
Great video bro..I always get knowledge and enjoyment from your videos.Keep it up.
One more thing, I like to through this video in faces of haters of Messi whenever they say 'Eibarman'... Which I feel now as a compliment.. scoring against the Best run 'small' team in the world of football
Alternative title for this video could have been Hipster's favorite football clubs.
Hey man, love the vids, good channel! I was overwhelmed when you mention Leganés as a well run club, I like the Pepineros very much, would love to see a stand alone video of them! Keep on rocking! Cheers mate!
Where tf is Leicester, brilliant recruitment, great facilities, great owners and currently performing well
What about AJAX🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
The club has been running smoothly for decades
He mentioned Ajax in honorable mentions.
they're the obvious example of a 'well run' club he said he would'nt include any obvious ones
Completely neglected Borussia Mönchengladbach
Aston Villa..weve come back from near bankruptcy to a middle table team with great owners great facilities great backroom staff great manager and captain local geezers who both support villa... Really don't know how things could improve so dramatically in just a couple of years... Incredible.. Villans deserve it after all the years of pain... Just for our banter and piss take alone we are a top club
Have you ever looked into Borussia Mönchengladbach? They have been slowly growing their club from a mid table team to a team that gets to the championsleague last 16. Their recruiting is brilliant and they probably have the best manager in german football. Very interesting club structure and a very loveable fan scene. Might be worth a look, very interesting :D
I would totally watch a deep dive into these clubs. Great vid!
I really like the indepth analysis of well run clubs please do more of them!
best reserve teams ever ex:real madrid castilla 1980 that reached a Spanish cup final vs real madrid main team
You could do a video on Vicente del Bosque, probably the most underrated manager of his generation. He's literally the only manager to win the UCL (2000, 2002), World Cup (2010), and the Euros (2012) but nobody talks about him.
You a true Man of Culture Alfie, Eibar are definitely a shining beacon in this era where storied footballing giants are being run in the most irresponsible ways possible.
My video suggestion, a video profile of Godfrey Chitalu, the man who scored 107 goals in a calendar year.
AZ Alkmaar deserves a spot in this.
Competing both in domestic and European football with clubs with 4× their budget (Ajax, PSV) or even 7× (Napoli/Manchester United).
One of the best youth academies in the world, the selection is worth €120 000 000 in total while biggest transfer was only 2.6 million.
This is the starting XI:
GK: 500k from Genk
LB: Own youth
CB: Own youth
CB: Free transfer from Aston Villa (was own youth)
RB: 800k from Rosenborg BK
CM: 800k from Rosenborg BK
CM: Own Youth (Captain)
AM: 2 million from Ajax
LW: 2.2 million from Elfsborg BK
ST: Own Youth
RW: Own Youth
This should be a regular video for the end of the year, along with best manager, best IX
Following on from what you said about Ligue 1 and Rennais, would love to see a video about the league in general, and why it tends to be so looked down upon in recent years
FC Midtjylland and Matthew Benham piqued my interest in Brentford: Shiny new stadium, selling Ollie Watkins to Villa. Sounds like a story given its proximity to London, and its super-clubs, no?
Well thought out video. I feel Atalanta deserved and honourable mention. Ajax are known to have the best youth academy but not surely how they are doing financially.
Another thing to add regarding Sassuolo is they are one of very few teams in Serie A to actually own their Stadium.
You probably just gave Beverley one of the biggest shoutouts it has ever received, it’s cool to see that someone from where I’m from can succeed like you have :)
A great video.. loved it! It would be really great if you could do a personalized version of this, looking into each club's positive points
I'm a bit disappointed Borussia Mönchengladbach isn't even a honorable mention when they accomplished a lot with very little over the last 10 years going from almost being relegated to a regular contender for Europe and probably the 4th or 5th best club in Germany behind Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig and maybe Leverkusen. While getting a lot of money in the transfer market with the sells of Reus, Ter Stegen, Xhaka, Dante to name a few examples
This may be your best video so far, keep it up!
Maybe include Borussia Mönchengladbach in the next video mate :)
Would love to see a video on how Midtjylland's unorthodox methods havw made them a giant in Danish football. Especially with their community projects and their work in improving various African towns
really enjoyed this video. great work guys!
No atalanta or Sivilla even in the honorable mantions?
Atalanta should be there, obviously no research has been done, just another waste of time video
Nice video, but I think you forgot a team: SC Braga.
Before the turn of the century they weren't even that great in the portuguese league, more of a mid-tabble team, usually finishing 7th-10th, and only 1 portuguese cup as silverware.
Since 2003-2004, when their current president got in charge, António Salvador, they managed to establish themselves as the 4th strongest portuguese team with 9x4th place, 2x3rd, 1x2nd, in 17 seasons. Won 1 portuguese cup and 2 league cups.
Got into Champions League Group Stage twice (1x3rd, 1x4th)
Got into the group stage of Europa League(or were dropouts from Champions) 10 times, getting past the group stage 9 times out of 10, even managing to get to the Europa League final in 2010/2011, in a amazing campaign were they started in the Champions League finishing third on the group with 9 points, went to the Europa League and even knocked out Liverpool but ended losing 1-0 in the final to Porto.
They also got a new stadium with the Euro 2004. Currently, they are focusing more and more into developing youngsters, and are starting to get good results with the likes of Francisco Trincão who left for Barcelona this past summer for a record breaking sell for the club of around 30M€.
Quite impressive considering many of those years they had quite low budgets (10M or less) and their home city has around 200k people. It isn't just a good season, but consistent results, fruit of a good management.
From portuguese mid-table mediocrity to Europa League knock-out stages regulars, I feel like they have over achieved more than pretty much any club on this list, but not even a honorable mention.
Great video, I'd love to see one on how Ajax is run!
Do a video about the state of Sheffield Wednesday and what on earth is going on? We're a netflix doc waiting to happen
Please do a video about the 7 Best Belgian footballers before their golden generation!
You should do another video that ties in slightly with this. 7 worst ownership spells at football clubs ever, where are they now.
Maybe you could do it for every one of the top 5 european leagues
How are Leicester not here? Outstanding recruitment which never fails to replace the very big sales of recent times. A high class academy. Are also moving on to a fantastic training ground. Were in the championship less than a decade ago
"Dortmund are well run"
The same day: they sack Favre
Some of the transfer business lille have done in the last few years is very impressive .
Can you do a video on the sports investment vehicle headed by the guy from Moneyball that was recently launched. I'd love to get your thoughts on the complete corporatization of football.
It’s great seeing teams you make great in fifa career mode actually become great
Stade Rennais 4 life
As an atleti fan I would like to know your take on atletis current board the one who took over since 2003 hitc sevens , Would like to know more about our board and the way they ran the club
Completely changed our fortunes. Compared to the players and state of the club in 2003 to 2013 with Simeone and now 2020. New stadium, challenging for the league again, playing better football, and with a young team again. Not to mention us still labeled as a "selling club" and Simeone had to transition from the Old Guard between 2017-2019. It's crazy
@@mikefaican6763 But I think most people would agree that we arent that " Selling club " Anymore we have really improved in that regard we have kept the same generation for years 2014-2019 ( Which was a year of choas and transition year for us ) so we had to sell 2 or 3 key players to completely overhaul the squad , We even kept greizmann from barca for a year which is a huge improvement but sometimes I feel like the board could do better especially since a lot of important figures in spain support atleti and would like to takeover the team but I mean if you put it that way this board could be good I guess not sure really tho would like input of some netrual fans who dont support atleti since they are not really known much besides few fans who do research on the boards work
Finally a vidio talking about my favorite club fc Midtjylland
In this and other worlds,I am 3rd liker of this video and I fully agree with these 7 respective football clubs which are the best run football clubs but I am fully impressed by Real Sociedad's best run of form so far this season with their tactical gameplans and good recruitments,good friends!!!:-D
Could we have a video on Bodø/Glimt’s amazing season in Norway? First ever title and by a 20pt margin
As a Brighton and Schalke fan who's had to endure a torrid 2020 on the pitch, I'm glad to finally get a slight win in a honourable mention for the Seagulls, let's hope the xPts start becoming real ones and I don't have to deal with two relegation battles in 2021
Wow, three very well run clubs from the Basque country. They really know their football there
Sevilla are surely worth an honourable mention
Honorable Mention Ajax: certainly worth a mention / video.
World power in the 70s. World power in mid 90s. Players walking out of the club for free.
Non-football directors in the board in the 2000's. Cruyff's vision and the pro and con Cruyff camps leading to tough years.
And then they got Overmars and v.d. Sar in. Now they are making 100s of millions (de Jong, de Ligt, vd Beek, Davinson Sanchez, but also Milik etc). Great youth academy. European 'success' in the last 6 years. Being able to compete with the Real Madrid in acquiring youth talent from South America.
But also the tragic of Nouri.
And now the first example of a talent, walking out of the club for free because of the success of Ajax an less of a chance of playing (Brobby (by Raiola) to RB Leipzig). Will it be a downwards spiral; or will it become the Dutch Bayern Munich.
Would love to see a video on Leganes!
A video on Ajax Would be Appreciated😁😁😁
I think SL Benfica should have featured, but still, amazing video as always.
Lol no way
should do a video on luton town when they got promoted to championship with hull 15 years ago and the fall and return of the club to the confrance and back, club is doping well in championship despite a mid team league 1 budget
Nah come on, where's Hashtag United?
I see you know your culture very well
Leicester over the past 5 or 6 years has seemingly been run very well (maybe even longer for all I know). They have sold a handful of players like Kante, Drinkwater, Mahrez, Maguire, and Chilwell for big profits (over 300 million in transfer fees just for those five players), have been pretty intelligent in many of their additions (if Leicester sold Maddison, Söyüncü, Ricardo, and Ndidi for their current market values they would make a combined 95 million in profit from what they paid to acquire them all within the past few seasons), and they still have a few guys around from that Premier League title-winning side playing a bit like it's still 2015 in Vardy, Schmeichel, and to a degree Fuchs and Albrighton. Really the only misses they've had in the past few years have been Slimani, Iheanacho, and Perez, but the latter two have at least contributed somewhat and still have a bit of resale value if the club were to take that route. All in all given their continued competitiveness and staying power in the league, holding their own when given opportunities in Europe, the fact their ground seems to be one of the more raucous in the league when there isn't a pandemic ongoing (and is still a relatively newer stadium), and their profitability in the market, I thought they would have been a shoe-in for this list, or at least get a shout-out.
Definitely cover the teams in the prem, would love that, stills great video though
Would be interested in a full length Ajax profile. Superb club in terms of football philosophy and financial model. A conveyor belt of quality footballers coming through their academy.
Alfie, can you please make a documentary type video about the Norwegian soccer league
I think atalanta deserve a spot in this list and I'd love Alfie should make a video about them because they have been operating under a small transfer budget, made incredible signings like Gomez and ilicic. And they have also have a great academy and recruitment system. So judging by there performances lately they deserve a video
A video about Burnley would be amazing
I’d be interested in a full length video on why Liverpool is so well run
We need more of these
Please do a video on Brighton and how they are run.
Southampton is a good honourable mention. Since 2011 they've balanced the books and bar Chelsea have the the best debt/profit margin. Plus the transfer policy has brought massive success with a great youth system
Yes I would like more of these kind of videos!
I'd love watching a series of more in depth videos about how these well ran clubs are run. Most of these, I knew, but I assume there's more to the story and I'm a sucker for sustainability and (relative) success. :)
How SL benfica wasn’t even mentioned is shocking... Great selection on Eibar I do agree with that.
AEK Athens is (nowadays) a club thats has no debts ,is building a new stadium (no loans) ,new training camp and academy facilities
How about a video covering seven different dream line-ups. Build each with unique formations and no overlapping players. The teams could also hypothetically be in the same league, hopefully adding more purpose and considering to the structures. Then, which team would win a 24 game season? Thanks for the excellent content!
*PLEASE* do a video on the J.League and what makes it so successful... THANKS.
Video Idea-Ranking all the nations that qualified for the euro from worst to best
I would love you to share the story about Ajax. I think people should know how we constantly somehow make an insane comeback to the European Scene
A full video on eibar?
Love to see a more in depth look into Sociedad and their recruitment policy compare to Bilbao
That's easy. Until 19 years old our policy is virtually the same: homegrown players from the Basque Country including the french Basque Country. In the reserves team or "B" side (called filial in spanish) we sometimes open our hand signing promising spanish players and foreign players, but it's a rare case.
This year we've done it more frequently because we are the only reserve team competing in the strong "Segunda division" (second tier) since we did it last time 60 years ago. So we've loaned a pair of youngsters from Atletico and Malaga and signed the slovakian Pokorny from Salzburg. The rest are Zubieta products, even our manager, the famous Xabi Alonso.
Can you make the opposite version of the video? (7 worst run clubs in world football)
Us (Man U)
Arsenal
Barcelona under old fart Bartomeu would obviously take the top spot.
Inter Milan
Sassuolo are actually incredible. they were first promoted 7 years ago and are competing for European places. Berardi would be able to walk into most XI in the europa league and some CL teams, Locatelli would walk on to almost every team in the world, and the rest of the players were all shrewd signings they can flip at will.
Day 103: 2012-2013 and 2019-2020 Bayern Munich Combined XI
If I had to throw a MLS team in this bunch, I would have to go with either Seattle Sounders, Sporting KC, Portland Timbers or Toronto FC. Those 4 clubs are just so well run and seem like perennial contenders within their conferences and for the MLS Cup
I'd be nice if you did a series about clubs with good youth academies. Teams that play with a lot of youths and have sold them well. These clubs are good examples, but there are many others in brazil, england, germany and so on.
Surely a bit biased but really surprised Gladbach is not on the list. Barely survived in the Bundesliga in 2011 against Bochum in the Playoffs, then CL Playoffs a year later. Since then we played several times in Europe, we made it through a not so easy Group with Inter, Real and Donezk and sold players like Reus, Dante (Triple winner with Bayern), Xhaka, ter Stegen, Kruse, Dahoud, Hazard and so on. Dahoud and ter Stegen came through our youth academy, Patrick Herrmann came through it as well and has passed Günter Netzer in regards of most games for our club. Max Eberl (Manager) has been doing an outstanding job considering all this and that we were almost bankrupt in the early 00's.
Now we could lose our coach to Dortmund (yeah, super thrilled about losing another part of our success to THAT Borussia...) and players like Neuhaus, Zakaria, Thuram and Elvedi are also very interesting for a lot good clubs in Europe (personally I think Zak will leave for Bayern and Neuhaus will leave next season for a very big club. He is like a younger, more dynamic version of Kroos).