It is considered ‘inappropriate’ to ask approximately the money behind Pep Guardiola’s team,and other main clubs, but we should be asking the hard questionsEven though I reach from the red side of Manchester, or I want Manchester City to win every game they play now. Hoping City fail is like hoping a great singer’s voice cracks or prima ballerina’s tendons tear. Journalists have written and broadcast millions of words approximately the intensity of Manchester City’s game and the beauty of its movement. You watch and gasp as each perfect pass finds its man and each impossible hasten becomes possible after all.
Everything that can be said should have been said. But here are words you never hear on the BBC or Sky and hear only rarely from the best sports writers. Manchester City’s success is built on the labour extracted by the rulers of a contemporary feudal state. Sheikh Mansour,its owner, is the half-brother of Sheikh Khalifa, and the absolute monarch of the United Arab Emirates: an accident of birth that has given him a mountain of cash and Manchester City the Premier League’s best players.
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Source: guardian.co.uk