((sigh)) ... Bob, Bob, Bob. When you were happily singing 'feed the Goat and he will score', did you really believe that the likes of Pep would be managing City, or that the likes of Aguero, Jesus etc would have ever played for City?, or did you begin to dream that once the Arabs took over with limitless funds at your disposal? The teams that you mention above all have to comply with FFP on a financial grand scale, and no doubt eventually the book cookers at City will eventually fudge the numbers to prove that City can 'naturally' earn the numbers required to justify their spending like announcing a sell-out match, when there is a third of the stadium empty (as pointed out by Gary Neville live on tv), but in reality the money and the numbers go much further back than this season, don't they, fella? The teams you listed have worldwide support and financial clout built over years of success and loyal following. The one comparable to yourselves that are missing are PSG for the past year.
It started with paying stupid wages and contracts to mediocre players to get the ball rolling, which losses had to be swallowed to move on in later seasons. A normal club cannot sustain what 'you' are doing, Blackburn proved this, Leeds have proved this, and now 'as it would appear', even Chelsea are trying to cut their own cloth to suit and it's beginning to show.
Manchester City will win trophies, Pep will play wonderful football (that's why they pay him so much) , but would Pep have rushed to Main Rd to manage City and play Stockport on a cold November night in 1999... nah, I don't think so either. In fact, it wasn't that long ago when the sale of a certain Shaun Wright Phillips saved your club from financial ruin, and this 'fact' is well acknowledged behind the doors of City. So... am I filled with bile? ... perhaps, if your hollow future historical victories were genuinely remembered as anything but that, when your own supporters want to forget the past. am I ignorant?... I don't believe so, I comment on what I see, and from history. Bob, if tomorrow the Arabs walked away and took every penny with them, how long do you genuinely think that Manchester city would last financially?
Just remember though, there was a reason that FFP was brought into football, and it wasn't because of the behaviour or truth behind the funding of 4 of the 5 clubs that you so generously listed in your post above.
