I think a lot of football supporters beyond City have this all about the money thing over City. In the early years after the takeover that was fair comment as we had to spend above the odds to catch up to the rest who had been doing it for years.
But we have now made a shift in emphasis to only wanting players who want to come for what we deem a fair wage.
That is a shock to the world of football where it has always been about money and outdoing one another.
We seem to have concluded that there is another way.
It is not just over this transfer we changed the strategy over deals for players a while ago to reward success and performance rather than just buy it in.
Perhaps that is not well understood beyond City as yet.
We don't have an unlimited budget because of FFP(FFP is not optional)....rags know this
I am sure we could have matched what the rags are offering sanchez
that would have affected the amount we could spend on future signings