No. Definitely not. Just look at that. You can have the Ballon d'Or, you can spend 300€ millions in players. But if you don't have a proper strategy, if your only goal is scoring one more goal than your opponent (words from Pellegrini), you will never play properly.
I could talk a lot about my dear Real Madrid. In the last 6 years, they have spent millions and millions on players, but they lacked a thing: a proper plan. Barça has kept the same strategy for years: keeping the ball, making everybody play, from the keeper to the last forward, and never relax, even if you are winning by 3 goals. Madrid decided to keep their goal as empty as possible and hope someone will score. They have had 10 different coachers, and the only one who got something else other than getting kicked in 1/8 in the Champions League and in 1/16 from the King's Cup against a 2nd B class team was Capello, with an ultradefensive setup the two years Ronaldinho's downfall kept Barça away from getting the Spanish League.
There is also a detail that is worth mentioning: over the last years, only three players have stayed with them: Casillas, one of the best keepers in Europe, and Raúl and Guti, two half-players that should have been fired years ago. Thanks to Raúl, several forwards and midfielders have been misused, since they were forced to let him score, or sold at the end of the season so they wouldn't bother him (around 8 or so). Now Benzemá is going to be their new victim, and nobody says a word. Blaming the coacher is easier.
I could keep on and on, but yeah. They lost 4-0 against a 2nd B class team. Using 8 players from the regular team. And, since Ronaldo got knocked out, they have won 1 match out of 4. So yes, you can buy good players, but if you don't make a proper team out of them, you won't get anything. Soccer is a team sport, after all.
