Thing is, it's not really a fair shout. Nearly everyone who joined Utd around that time ruined their career. Nearly everyone who joined City thrived. The environment makes a difference to people's progress, development and dictates the opportunities and conditions in which they have to perform. KDB gets sick at Utd, goes off to Bayern. Having missed two, three years of football. Pogba (or Sanchez, for that matter), join City? Maybe it's perfect for them. Pogba discovers the great passion of winning, and learns to work hard for the team? Why not. And I always think that Sanchez as a false 9, or support for Aguero, with our team of glittering midfield ball players and wingers as it was backk then... that would have been a totally different situation to what he ended up with, being a player Utd could scarcely accomodate, only introducing another imbalance in their already deeply flawed line up of forwards. Pogba was similair. The balance was never there. Time and again, they bought players we could have used, but they had no idea how to accomodate properly. Time and again, it cost the manager their job. It's clear to me that how City learned to exploit this - staying in the race long after the decision to look elsewhere had been made - ensuried that Utd paid massive dollar every single time, just to get one over on us. And that, over the years, helped seal Utd's failure to retake their place as perennial challengers in the league / Champs League.
