Let's not be demanding. To expect from each group only what it can potentially offer us and not to make excessive demands. You can't, for example, expect runs, endurance and a great sports game from a team like Olympiakos. Whoever – for better or worse – decides to invest in the experience and class of older players over the ambition of youngsters. This means that in some games there will be magical passes like James Rodriguez's penultimate header, or razor-sharp crosses like the ones Marcello can pull off. But in no case will you expect to see runs, pressure in three quarters of the field, suffocation of the opponent and passion for the ball like you would expect from twenty-two year old football players.
There is also the other side of the coin. The one that PAOK serves anyone who goes down to one of the biggest derbies in the country, certainly their biggest derby, even bigger than the one with Aris. So PAOK went to Karaiskakis and Loucheskou played with a bunch of kids in the lineup. Certainly he could not expect from them the top management that veterans like Vierinia, Marcelo, James would have. But 100% expected - and finally got - an unsurpassed passion for victory, too many runs to the point where the opponent bursts and falls into mistakes that finally gave PAOK the double. And PAOK could have had a bigger victory that took out the tongues of the Olympiakos players like ... ties and this was also seen by the minimal contribution of Sokratis, among other things, in his team's game.
And there is also the middle ground. The one adopted by Panathinaikos, Aris and AEK. Three teams who, by chance or not, are the ones who are playing the best ball so far and are clearly claiming the distinction with greater claims. What each of these groups has set apart. Panathinaikos the title, so does AEK, certainly something that Aris is also thinking about, but in any case, he wants a place in the top three above all.
These do not only apply to the Greek teams but also for the largest in the world. From Real Madrid who decided to make a renewal but keeping 3-4 pillars of experience in their roster, to United who made a more drastic change of plan and have been paying for it for years now with low placings and defeats that have already tarnished their competitive profile.
No, how an alternate plan like this, say, of Olympiakos, he cannot succeed. No. You can get players of one or two seasons. And claim a goal. And then start rebuilding. This might work. But 9/10 times when you invest in experience and older players, you risk running into a fed-up footballer who won't be motivated anymore. There are, so you can understand, the Begs who come to revive their careers. There are the Gilbertos whose photo is entered in dictionaries next to the entry "professional". And there are also Flavio Conceição or Julio Cesar. Of the rapist, we're going to pinch him a salary and a bill in addition. When you invest in them, 9/10 times you will get burned. And 1/10 times he will sit straight for you like Gilberto or Rivaldo. Are you taking a risk? some yes, some no. The results will always be there to judge on a case by case basis...
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