Imagine this...
Three years ago Juve buys Mario Gomez for 35m eur and last summer Marotta buys some Mandzukic guy who never scored more than 16 goals in a season, even more, he scored them in the weak Croatian league. And now imagine Conte starts this Mandzukic. I'm sure that most of you wouldn't have been thrilled with this striking force of Gomez-Mandzukic.
Wanted or not, we're a work in progress. Take Bayern's starting XI and count how many of those players you'd start in our team. Probably not more than half. It takes time, lots of work, experience and careful addition of players in the team, even if at first glance those players won't look too attractive to the fans. Bayern made one star purchase back in 2007 when they bought Ribery. Robben was an injury plagued flop from Real Madrid. Then you have some strange big investments like Gomez and Martinez, and a bunch of purchases of players you never heard about, like the 28 year old Dante. Bayern spent years of careful planing and failures to create this team. We're only finishing our second year under Conte.
Anyway, as Barca and Bayern can show us, the youth system is really important. We know Barca's home grown stars, and we know that Muller, Schweinsteiger, Alaba, Kroos, Badstuber etc come from Bayern's youth system. We are obviously working a lot on finding youngsters who'll later reach the first team. We're also adding youngish players (Vidal, Bonucci, Asamoah) who we can also imagine as part of a successful Juve in the future.
I'm glad that we're taking the correct road. Teams like Barca and Bayern are actually showing us that their tactics are more successful than the "lets buy us a whole team made of stars" tactics. City, Real and PSG will eventually win something big, but how much time will it take them and how much money?