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Are Manchester City Really Destroying Football?

by tyduffy on February 18, 2009 · 7 comments

FC Copenhagen chairman Stale Solbakken suggests that Manchester City’s spending will ruin football.
“The amounts of money that have been mentioned are incredible,” Solbakken told Ekstra-Bladet.
“I think that such incredible sums will take part in destroying football.
“They are creating too big a mental distance between what we call reality and then Manchester City.”
 The idea of City’s fiscal [...]

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Should Manchester City Refocus Their Mega-Spending Efforts Domestically?

by tyduffy on January 24, 2009 · 13 comments

Manchester City’s new ownership sent chairman Garry Cook, brimming with billions, to build a super-club capable of Champions League qualification.  The club’s £91m bid for Kaka was a noted fiasco, but, as details have emerged, that’s hardly been their only activity.
City reportedly made an equally irresponsible bid for Spain and Valencia star David Villa, in [...]

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