This is spot on. If any rival fan bangs on about City buying players just ask them if they'd ever heard of Ederson, Zinchenko, Dias, Rodri, Jesus or Torres before City signed them. Then while they're spluttering a reply ask them how much City paid for them and how much higher their transfer value is now after being coached by Pep.
Let's not forget either that the media, rags and dippers never stopped telling us that City got ripped off paying £55 million for "Chelsea flop" KDB and £20 million "injury prone crock" Gundogan.