Arsenal, Chelsea and City had a policy on getting only young talents, it just hadn’t worked as well as Real Madrid’s.

Do u remember Carlos Vela or Arshavin in Arsenal?

Chelsea got young De Bruyne and Salah…

City has been buy in young talents like crazy, Julian Alvarez is the latest successful example.

I’m sure other people will remember more and better examples

A big big reason is that it’s easier to gel and settle a bunch of young players in a less competitive league.

The Premier League on another level. Real Madrid would face pretty hard matches on a weekly basis. You don’t get too many rubbish teams in the PL, while in Spain they are everywhere. Same in Germany and any other European League.

There are many reasons besides money why many prem teams cannot replicate this, I will state some of them.

As a top 3 team in history madrids reputation is basically unmatched, players REALLY want to come to madrid as it is also perceived as stable (much less drama [recently] than I see from other top clubs). So whenever multiple clubs are interested in a top talent (basically always) they are likely to choose Real.

Buulding on from this you mention clubs wasting money on low ceiling high floor players (describing enzo fernandes as one is crazy tho) is that madrid can circumvent this as I believe they are the best club at free signings, consistently signing great squad players/ role fillers even the occasional world class players all at no cost to the transfer budget allowing them to focus more on youngsters.

Lastly prem clubs do do this, just not as often or as well as Madrid. Not every “wunderkind” makes it, in fact plenty “only” make it to a squad player level and thats fine even if they aren’t to the level of your team they can be sold to someone who fits well (hopefully at a profit) but that doesnt mean they havent spent on high potential youth, maybe that instead they just didnt develop as hoped. Adding on Real madrid also implement a volume startegy in youth transfers do a shit tonne and of course your more likely to succeed in creating world beaters.

Any other time and this argument sounds quite cliché, but this is the case where things like PL tax and intensity of the PL hold true. And with the top teams playing 60+ games each season, how can they sustain if they’ve only got one constant squad for the next 10 years?

Well because they end up at Real. No club has a better lure than the mighty Real (i’m far from a Real fan but I try to stay objective )

I think it’s the weather.

Real are doing what other clubs were doing when they were buying established stars. They have had a change of policy. In fact most clubs now pay for potential and only a few can pay for a finished product.

Money isn’t everything though.

A lot of teams don’t want to gamble on a young player because they don’t know how he’ll adapt to the league/turn out.

Also, Real have massive pull compared to the Top 6 on PL. Given a choice between Real and a PL club, usually the player goes to Real (especially South American).

Well we try but sometimes they pick Madrid.

Because it’s Real Madrid. They are literally the biggest and most successful club of all time.

They can afford to buy any player they want, and more importantly 99% of young players would choose being a galactico over joining any other club.

If a South america player goes to Spain, he has to be there 2 years to be eligible for spanish citizenship.

In England it’s 5 years.

So, after 2 years they are considered non-EU for ucl. This is huge factor.

Its easier to do that when you already have a great squad as Madrid did. They bought players when they already had Modric, Casemiro, Kroos, etc.

And they were really competent and a little bit lucky that almost all their young players turned out fine.

Signing young players is always a risk.

Using Mac Allister and Gakpo of examples of poor transfer ideas seems strange. Both are young and have contributed to a decent amount already (particularly Gakpo).

So most of the players bought cheaply were before they had a real breakout or were on expiring contracts.

Madrid gets first pick of South American talent, and most other talent as well, by virtue of their history. When two teams are in for a player, and one is Madrid, Madrid wins 90% of the time, they don’t really have to convince players of their project. The young Brazilians were all bought early, and with no small risk, yes, but no one was going to beat Madrid if it turned into a player decision. Similarly Jude and Tchoumeni had a few suitors but chose Madrid. If they don’t pan out, Madrid can buy their way out; they also have almost no risk of being out of Europe because they’ve maintained a good spine, and can have a relatively “down” year in the league where they develop talent and it not effect their finances or brand because there aren’t 6-8 teams in Spain that consistently get to that level, only 3-4.

Plus England has work-permit requirements that were historically tougher. Outside of Barca, Atletico, Bayern, PSG, and Juve (arguably), no one outside of England has the money.

Real Madrid didn’t create this team in 2022 at the same time as winning the Champions League.

It was a process that began with CR7’s departure and years of defeat passed until it could be won.

Any PL team would have sacked everybody and change their philosophy to the first year without titles or signed 3 mediocre players to cover the non-signing of Mbappe.

The key to success is not to deviate from the plan no matter what.