With the cash, you need history to be able to lure players.
Why would the top players in the world reject going to City? I've heard No's from Kaka, Messi, Torres, Fabregas, Casillas and others.
I'm 80% sure that they would have said yes had Liverpool been the one that made the offer.
I've seen the 'Most successful English team list' and we stand at number 1 with 58 trophies won.
Man United are right behind with 55 trophies. The next club is Arsenal, only at 34, I think.
At the moment, Liverpool would be the most successful English team with their record being threatened by Manchester United, whom I think have dominated the 1990s-2000s. It was Arsenal and Chelsea after that till 2006. Now, let's hope is our turn.
Dont want to argue here but we won it in 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003 , 2006-2007 , 2007-2008
Id say that 2000-2009 is our era myself maybe not as solid as 1990-2000 but its ours all the same.
Yeah I agree with the point you make that all of the lads mentioned would come to Liverpool if they had city's cash as your club holds huge respect and history world wide Id be pretty ignorent to deny that.
The management is the key if city got a Jose Mourinho character then players would come to join him . Mark Hughes doesnt carry much standing as a manager in europe he has no honours and lacks the european experience of a Jose or a Rafa or even a Martin O,niell .
So saying they did get a good manager who got them Champions league football these players you listed would sign for them would they have the respect of a player who plays for United or Liverpool no they wouldnt as city have'nt as much respect globely.
You only have to look at Chelsea loads of money spent on players and yeah a great side respected in Europe but nobody likes them abroad all you hear is United or Liverpool nobody cares about Chelsea they lose players tommorow and there gone .
Clubs on that level have spells in europe and domestic football in Italy they had Lazio , Fiorantina who both made the Champions league and in Spain they had Sevilla and now Villareal these teams are half decent in terms of size in there country . The thing they have in common is that they have good spells but once they fall they will fall drasticly and no one will care unlike when a giant club goes like Barcelona or Madrid or Ac milan or Juventus its big news world wide.
The elite in europe are in no order
Ac Milan
Juventus
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Manchester United
Liverpool
Bayern Munich
Ajax
That is the elite in my eyes .
Second tier
Valencia
Atletico Madrid
Inter milan
Roma
Arsenal
Chelsea
Lyon
Porto
Benfica ( past record )
Psv
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