Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox The champagne bubbles had not lost their fizz, and the blue flare smoke was still drifting around the Etihad Stadium when it began.
Manchester City were champions, but it didn’t mean anything. They bought the Premier League. Their “oil money” is ruining football, making the league uncompetitive, turning it into another Bundesliga, where one rich club dominates.
There is an element of truth in all this, of course - but just an element. City HAVE out-spent everyone else since Sheikh Mansour’s takeover in 2008.
They have bought some great players, pumped money into their academy and transformed a club that was a homely, affectionately dysfunctional
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