subject: Can Manchester City Buy Their Way to the Premier League Title? [print this page] Can Manchester City Buy Their Way to the Premier League Title?
The simple answer to the above question, of course, is 'No, obviously not.' After all, buying the title of Champions of the English Premier League would entail bribing a large number of referees, opposing players and, almost certainly, League officials. Not very likely really. Although, listening to some of the comments people are making about Manchester City this summer, that method would seem almost moral compared with their audacity in trying to sign some of the game's top players.
This might all sound rather flippant as a response to a serious question but, to be frank, I find it all rather bemusing for people to suggest that becoming Premier League winners is as simple as throwing money into the transfer market. It it had been that easy, Liverpool would have won the title in the last couple of years - and Arsenal would have had no chance!
I find it strange to read all this criticism of Manchester City just because, suddenly, they have seemingly unlimited money to spend. Some of it does taste a little of sour grapes. Or hypocrisy in the Case of Sir Alex Ferguson - who didn't mind breaking the transfer record to sign Cole, Veron or Ferdinand. And his team is not exactly home-grown nowadays, is it? How many of the Man Utd best eleven was not bought in for a big fee? Sir Alex is clearly getting a little worried. Why else would he have started the 'they're just a small club' insinuations and the mind games already. He hasn't, after all, started making his comments about any other club, has he?
Even worse, perhaps, are the jibes aimed at players who have had the temerity to join Manchester City's 'project'. They're only doing it for the money, you see. Where is their loyalty to Aston Villa, Blackburn, Arsenal or the Man Utd substitutes' bench? Well, let's see the people saying this turn down the chance of perhaps a 50% wage increase if they're offered a post at a rival employer, shall we?
It seems as if Manchester City's new owners have, by taking control at 'Middle Eastlands', usurped the position of evil foreign despot once held at Chelski and Manchester United Soccer Club. But really, who cares if the owners are from overseas, as long as they're committed to the club? Let's face it, Mike Ashley is hardly an advert for English ownership of one of our best supported clubs, is he?
And Manchester City is one of our best supported football clubs - the fans were voted the Premier League's most loyal in a recent poll. They have had to endure some pretty rough years since the days of Lee, Bell, Young and Summerbee. Yet they still turned up in their thousands to the old Second Division and have clung to the hope that, one day, one of those breaking dawns wouldn't prove to be yet another false one.
So, can Manchester City buy their way to the League title?
Well, perhaps, just perhaps, the players Mark Hughes has at his disposal might be good enough to offer a realistic challenge. I, for one, hope so. Anything to shake up the complacency of the self-styled 'Big Four' who seem to regard Champions' League qualification as a God-given right. Anything to dent the arrognace of the fans of those same teams - who consider their teams untouchable.
Manchester City has enough good players in the squad to begin the season with realistic expectations of 'giving it a good go', at any rate. Whether it's enough to take the title this year is doubtful; but I hope at least they shake the others up and make life at the top a lot more interesting.
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