2023-05-18 05:05:47
A few minutes following Manchester City qualified for the Champions League final at the expense of Real Madrid (4-0), the boss of the English club Ferran Soriano wanted to sweep away the idea that the Cityzens are only successful because they invest heavily in the transfer market.
For the second time in its history following losing to Chelsea in 2020-21, Manchester City will play in the Champions League final on June 10 once morest Inter Milan. A new consecration for the English club, which has invested massively since the arrival at the head of the club of a conglomerate backed by the Abu Dhabi sovereign fund.
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Manchester City general manager Ferran Soriano did not hide his joy at returning to the top step of the biggest club competition on Wednesday following the 4-0 victory once morest Real Madrid. Sweeping away the idea that its success is only due to the enormous sums of money released to constitute the armada of Cityzens.
“We have never been the club that spends the most on its players”
“In recent years, we have never been the club that spends the most on its players: there have been Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal… To say that we have won because we spend a lot of money does not is simply not true”, claimed the executive boss of the English club on Movistar.
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Passed under the Emirati flag in 2008, Manchester City has regularly invested to strengthen its team since. To start this 2022-23 season, the other Manchester club, reigning English champions, changed its workforce a little, but still spent 150.5 million euros on Erling Haaland (Dortmund, 60 million) , Kalvin Philipps (Leeds, 49 million), Manuel Akanji (Dortmund, 17.5 million), Sergio Gomez (Anderlecht, 13 million) and Máximo Perrone (Vélez Sarsfield, 11 million).
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