Rome wasn't built in a day but Chelsea was!

Spot on

Yes, but they didn't win the Premiership for a couple of years after Abramovic bought them.... so many good players were bought and disposed of before they got it.... i'm thinking Veron, Mutu, Petit, Parker etc etc.... we will see how City get on this season i guess. Chelsea always had the core of Lampard and Terry and Cech and Drogba to gel and grow for those formative couple of years of Abramovic's reign. City need to keep Lescott, Barry and Tevez i think to do the same.

There is something very perverse about this system of buying a team into "success". It is not good for the game overall. What is good for the game is what the likes of Brian Clough did with Nots Forest - now that is success achieved in a very honorable way.

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I believe d Portugese Born CNN Anchor is not bias wit d Ctuation revolving The Manchester City..Outfit..Pedro pinto is a man wit a positive Sence of Humor..& his publication on sport has been Groovy,,..Kudos to d entire CNN Crew,..Ride on wit Ur Awesome work...We luv U..

Excellent articles.

Money can’t buy you love and can’t buy you championships too.

Mania will be out of the EPL next season. Bye Bye Mania.

this same pinto said Ghana would not be getting anywhere in the world cup...........

what happened to his beloved Portugal ??? Rubbish

man city,they are jokers ,,,,,its all gona b the same old stories,they can never win any cup dis season...its gona b worst.......

@Tony Bowling An American here talking football with fans of the EPL:

There's something in America called Free Agency (not a derogatory comment – I just don't know if the EPL has the same thing). A player is at the end of his contract and then goes and entertains lucrative offers from other teams. Lately, it has evolved into that player choosing where he wants to go with the big influence being whether or not the players thinks the team can win championships with the other players they have. You may have heard of LeBron James most recently.

And free agency has killed every sport here.

In any case, it's just funny to hear you say that it's perverse about a team buying good players and automatically thinking they will win – funny to me anyway because it's been the way of American sports for too long. I do remember when teams went through cycles, players were home-grown, and groomed into the system, the veterans taught the young players and they spent about 6-10 years with one another with the occasional trade or add on.

In the sport of baseball, with the one exception of the New York Yankees, buying players has actually never proven to be successful. Every team that has won usually has players that are not superstars all playing their roles to win games as team. I will be curious to see if ManCity can keep it together.

You guys criticizing Man City should keep quiet. If your team do not have money to buy players the way Man City is doing, you can as well go out there and look for a rich guy to buy your club and stop be jealous. You should rather wait and see how the season will turn out.
Man City and other clubs that have more money go ahead and do what you like and let these jealous idiots go to hell.

Mr. Pinto, surely it helps if you have the money to buy the greatests of talents?
I miss in your story the most important aspect in buying players, namely who selects them. Because if Mr. Mancini was involved while contracting these players, that would throw a different light on things, wouldn't it? Was he?

@Sol: clubs in the "Eredivisie", out of Holland, where I come from, that perform well and show great football on a tight/tiny budget (i.e. Heracles last season, but that's another discussion!) get greater admiration from me than ManU does, or ManCity. Sorry!

Kind regards.

YOU WANT TO MAKE A BET? MONEY CAN BUY ANYTHING!

soccer sucks

City will struggle to finish in the top four this season. Mancini just isn't the man for the job.

Man City is climbing the ladder.
Its an investment! I hope they win
a trophy with what they had acquired!
Yes it comes down to the dressing room!
Mancini of Man City is one with a good
record in club football. He had tested
victories in championships and now has
the players to do same for Man City.
You can do with little money and great work
But when you have great workers and great
Good money you trade cautiously. In EPL
Money matters! It can make this happen with time!
Man City is becoming a favorite! This season? Yes!

I do really agree with Mrs Ferguson since we cannot ignore that any title is brought always as a result of the spirit of group. And especially in football we have to prepare a homogenous group in order to win titles and that's for sure since this collaboratve group will endure a strong mission for a long period in order to make it. With my wishes of the best for all english teams.

I think Man.City signing playes to lift the premier league doesn't make any sense. And if they are thinking that chelsea did it so they can. I think they should cnnsider the Experience of the manager and the attitude of the players! If the new signing should emerged can they quicklx understand the system of the club. Are the new player seif disciplined and commited. For me, i don't believe in huge signing. Take a look at Madrid last season trophyless.so big signings does go well,rather than team composement and seif disciplied.THANK U

As the saying goes "Great minds work alike" let all wait paitiently and focus on what the great minds and legs of man city will do this season. All of you do not expect man city to be part of the top 4 without lifting the epl trophy, do you ?... Man city all the way.

too many resources could be a big problem for man city they should remember that man utd and arsenal are there so they should not expect to win anything and comparing mancini with the special one is far away to compare with his a world class coach before he came to chelsea he has a good record in porto so man city should be patient and time will tell when they will start to shine like man utd soon....

Mancini is too good looking to win.

it does buy success, but with great planning .e need2 get a coach and the boad and owners should give the cocah space and power 2buy players. teams like , liverpool, chelsea, man u, arsenal, inter. milan, barcelona , real etc r all owned by rich people or a group rich people taht why they buy the best players and create the best from thier youth system.

maNCITY, also need 2 start buying very young players 2 have good youth system

I love City and i think even though we might not reach the top this season, this season is to show that we are champions league proof!! WE LOVE yOU CIT|Y

"Money is not the key to happiness, but with money you can buy lots of keys"

Same applies here. Money is not the key to titles...but with money you can buy several players which they will play and win.