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The inconvenient Man City transfer truth that blows away Manchester United and Liverpool FC spending claims
29.01.2022 - 15:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
There is an uncomfortable truth behind Manchester City's on-field dominance of the Premier League in the last four seasons.
The narrative that the bumblers at Manchester United, and the shirt-tail clingers at Liverpool would have you believe is that Manchester City have simply thrown oodles of money at their football team, to become top dogs.
Nothing more, nothing less, just plain old lucre is what it takes, goes the argument, and the fact that they hatched and executed a plot to bring in one of the all-time great football coaches, who has shaped a carefully-selected group of players into a killing machine, is viewed as incidental.
No-one, but no-one denies that money has been at the root of what City have achieved. Pep Guardiola himself has repeatedly said that without the club digging deep to bring in the top-class footballers he needs, he would not have been this successful.
But that simple, undisputed fact tends to ignore the harsh truth - that to compete for the big prizes on a regular basis, you need money, and lots of it. Since Arsenal in the 30s, no-one has established an era of dominance without at least being financially competitive with the other top clubs.
Anyone who truly wants financial fair play, with everyone on the same level playing field, should be campaigning for an American-style draft and salary cap system.
City are playing by rules drafted by a handful of greedy, wealthy clubs, 30 years ago, to try to ensure that they would dominate the game, and reap its sumptuous monetary rewards, for years to come.
The difference is that City are now playing that game, not of their own making, much better than anyone else.
The talk of City’s big investment in their squad tends to ignore the fact that it IS
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