ManC (or for any major club, plus Wolves) articles in the media split as follow:
1. Sports hacks are sycophantic, gushing, in awe. Being anything otherwise would give the hack no access to players, behind the scenes, the directors, the elite training centre. The extreme example of this was...
Man City’s £700m to 800m squad is the costliest in world football history. The cost of a single player within that is not a decisive factor. Giving them 25 excellent footballers and countless trophies. BBC jokingly summed it up on Sunday “The Brighton fans must be crying, to see De Bruyne...
Some clubs are run like proper business, whereas many others (including in the Championship) aren’t, buying and paying players they strictly can’t afford (all paid for by huge subsidies from owners).
Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal are also run well, with all commercial income earned legitimately from arms length unconnected third parties. All three are profitable, with positive net cash inflows and very manageable debt.
They’ve enforced transfer bans against the mighty Barca and Chelsea, so they can and will see it through.
ManC can only take it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, whatever the size of their oil reserves.
If banned from Europe for season, they'll be able to concentrate on the PL.
38 x 3 points = 114 points. What an amazing club, I don't know how they do it.