An increasing number of Manchester City supporters believe the club should ditch its interest in signing West Ham United midfielder Declan Rice after Arsenal reportedly lodged another big-money bid.
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Football as sport can be as rudimentary as someone kicking a ball into a net, but as a business it is a complicated web.
The emotional investment so many get from watching their team play is seized on by those in this world of capitalism, with fans being used to make money for others whose attachment is usually more financial than anything else; both sides, aligned at some point on a sliding scale between love and hate, need each other and want their team to do well but for different reasons. The two are intrinsically linked yet at the same time have at least some separation given the paths of Bob from Gorton and HRH Sheikh Mansour from Abu Dhabi do not readily cross.
So it is at Manchester City, where their Champions League and Treble win is, in a business sense, an impressive achievement set up by 15 years of investment and decision-making. Unless the Premier League charges are proven to pull the rug from the legitimacy of what the club have done, City are reaping the rewards of spending heavily enough and - more importantly - cleverly enough to vastly increase their chances of winning every competition they enter.
The last bit is significant, because attempts to depict City's Treble as inevitable fall foul of being lazy and reductive. If the richest always wins, is it inevitable that Chelsea will win the Treble next year?
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Perhaps if Chelsea are successful within the next decade the £600m they spent this season will become more significant, but if there is an inevitability to it there should be written and spoken examples of people predicting this. Unless anyone who has dismissed City's success as inevitable can point to where
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When is the UEFA Super Cup and who will Man City face in the final?
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11.06.2023 / 12:45
Man City fans party until sunrise in Istanbul after Champions League final
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11.06.2023 / 08:53
Watch Man City fans serenade Noel Gallagher with Oasis classic after Champions League victory
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10.06.2023 / 23:27
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