its all dependant on mancity making champions league, they will be linked to everyone, i just hope players have the nerve to say NO! Some wont like robinho, buthopefully the fabregas', ronaldos and buffons will. i think they'll have a hard time selling ronaldo. if he leaves manutd... i REALL doubt he'll want otgo to mancity. Only thing worse would be liverpool.... and even then, its a different city lol.
manutdfan ur right, chelsea came along at right time. There were only 3 power teams, and even then, only manutd had potential to spend like chelsea..... now u have an established big 4. someone has to fall, because 5 times cant operate on champions league budgets and not make it every year (or 90% of time basically).
another thing chelsea had going for it is location. People underestimate that, but chelsea is in a great area of london (my uncle lives on kings road), personall its hard enough to sell south american players on england cause of lifestyle and climate... but if u could london is most desireable place.... abramovich was also first do to this....i think man city will have a harder go, clearly real madrid sold robinho to mancity to SPITE chelsea... but once mancity starts doing tactics worse than chelsea (we want this, we want that, 100 mil, 200 mil blhblahblah) big teams WONT sell to them. PErsonally i'd rather kaka be benched, then sold to mancity.
but then again money talks, and who r u to tell someone getting offered a double of wages, its wrong to go there... I guess i just miss days of teams being built up and then buying big plaers to fill final holes..