The problem that United fans have got is that, under the austerity of the Glazers, they HAVENT bought the title, as they have been doing for the past 20 years.
In the history of English football, United have broken the transfer record five times. City have done it three times and one of those was on super-flop Steve Daley 32 years ago.
Under Sir Alex Ferguson, the Reds have set new highs in the transfer market to bring in Andy Cole (£7million), Juan Veron (£28.1million) and Rio Ferdinand (£29.1million). Since the Abu Dhabi takeover, City have done it twice, on Robinho (£32.5m) and Sergio Aguero (£38m).
And if that is not enough, Uniteds team on Monday contained the most expensive goalkeeper in English history, as well as the most expensive defender and the most expensive teenager, not forgetting the fact they had a £30million striker sitting unused on the bench.
Mondays game pitted a £300million squad against a £250million squad, hardly prosperity versus poverty.
When Fergie won his first league title in 1993, it came on the back of a £6.75million spending spree on Gary Pallister, Danny Wallace, Neil Webb, Paul Ince and Mike Phelan. That sounds like peanuts today, but in 1989 it represented a huge outlay.
Perhaps only Arsenal could claim to have won the title on anything resembling a budget, but they also spent big ahead of their title successes, splashing out over £20million on talent such as Marc Overmars, Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit in 1996.
Wenger has a reputation as a manager who doesnt spend, but he has flashed the cash when necessary remember Thierry Henry (£10.5m), Sylvain Wiltord (£13m), Jose Reyes (£13m) and a chap called Samir Nasri (£15.8m)?
City didnt ruin football, as some sniffy fools have suggested. They have just joined the game, and started to play by rules not of their own making.
