On City and the future of football

Thursday, 04 September 08, 08:36 PM · Comments (0)

Many people (the majority of them Manchester United supporters) have quickly come to the assumption that Manchester City's takeover by the mega-rich Abu Dhabi United Group will lead to the "death" of competition in football.

It won't.

While City have already tabled and been successful in audatious bids for certain players, chief among them Brazilian star Robinho from Real Madrid, it is going to prove difficult for City to attract star players, and even more difficult to make those star players act as a cohesive unit as Real Madrid and Chelsea have found out in the past.

If Mark Hughes is intelligent he'll encourge the new owners to invest in City's recently effective youth scheme, which has produced players such as Micah Richards, Michael Johnson, Kasper Schmeichel, Ched Evans, and Nedum Onuoha. A strong youth system is what has helped Manchester United to dominate the Premier League.

City will certainly become competitive in the league now, which is good for football, not bad for it. In the 90's and early 00's the Premiership was very much a two horse race out with Blackburn's blaze of glory funded by the late Jack Walker's millions. With Chelsea and Liverpool finding recent success it has become more of a competition, adding City to the mix will only make that more interesting.

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