The difference between the two clubs is exemplified by the difference between the two managers. Ferguson is fired by success, by earning success and by true competition and building a team with a core of home grown players, Evans, Cleverley, Phil Jones, Welbeck, Smalling, Powell, Young, Rooney, Zaha, Giggs, Scholes, Fletcher, Carrick etc (I really hope fergie adds one/two midfielders this year as he admitted that there will be stronger competition next year, especially with morinho coming to chelsea, city going to spend another £100 million etc. Also he admitted there are issues with giggs, and scholes getting older-so i am 100 % he will add at least one midfielder next season-just have to.)
whereas mancini and little City are excited by Mansour's money power and motivated by the possibility of purchasing a host of readymade global all-stars every season, ultimately destabilising any consistency that may have been building. This is the nature of the quick fix project, irresponsible spending for short term gain. mancini says he needs to spend £100 million this summer in order to compete with the machine that is United. As if spending almost one billion pounds was not enough to have built a competitive team.
Since 1992 when the Premier League began United have spent a total of £531m on transfers and in that time Sir Alex Ferguson has build THREE different world class teams that have dominated the EPL... And all threehave had a good crop of English players in...
Now.... If you look at Man City since 2008, they have spent nearly £600m on players and have not even built one world-class team yet, the only decent home grown player they have is Joe hart and Roberta is doing his utmost to destabilise him... all the rest are imports.
Clubs with numpties like Mancini at the helm, will never give
youth a real chance, he's putting his shopping list in already, when he's clearly already spent way too much.
The lame excuses have been gushing from
Bobby Manc & his army of 'cheque book berties' who've been out in force with their fantasy football wish lists.
Where's this fantastic youth set up of yours, & when are we all going to see some of it come through?
Truth be told it's all as plastic as those empty seats at the half empty council house.
When Sugar Daddy Shake finds a new plaything, City will drop back to their true football position, Lower league that is. You haven't earned the right to be where you are, it has, like you, been bought and paid for by Mansour. You don't have the fan base or revenue to sustain a League 1 club, let alone a Premier League club.