The cycle in football is about ten years. The gold period often last about 3 years. By that I meant if a club reach their golden time it will last up to 3 years and then they will have to rebuild their team. The rebuild process will take about 5 years and they will reach their next golden time 2 or 3 years later.
Golden time for each club does not mean they will dominate their national league or Champions League but at least it is time they have highest performance for each generation of players.
Agreed for this,,, fully so. I am not sure when my team (Spurs) golden years will be and some people say we already lived through it, constantly finishing in top four and sometimes in second place, and even reaching the final of Champions League for the first time in our history,,, but it definitely felt like Poch was the end of our golden cycle. Cannot wait to rebuild and see the next one. Our problem is keeping real talent and of course a progressive board that we may never have.