I think you've taken something i've said wrong. When I said earlier "it'll happen" in regards to Barkley, I simply meant City bidding for him. Just like I think Everton will bid for Lukaku. Long way from that to the player coming to City. Maybe United fans think it's a foregone conclusion when they go to sign players, but that's certainly not how I think.
I did say earlier that it's difficult for non CL clubs to keep players generally when CL clubs come knocking, but that's a much broader comment about football across Europe. It wasn't meant as some sort of barb about how City will definitely get Ross because I just don't think that as I say. With Martinez in charge, it'll only take Kenwright loosening the purse strings enough to allow him to build in key areas and you'll be a CL club yourselves.
About perspective from the "pre billionaire days", can you actually explain that comment? I'm curious as to what you mean. I remember being beaten by Oxford on a horrible Saturday in November nearly 20 years ago. There wasn't enough tequila in Manchester to kill the pain that night. I don't even want to think about those days. I'm not one of those who laments what City used to be. We were a joke a club, a yoyo club as someone else on here described. The damage Swales and then Lee did, could've finished us for good. Hell even that Thai despot did his best to drive is into administration, which we were literally days from the day we were bought. My perspective is right now we've never had it so good and I'm grateful Sheikh Mansour came along. I won't say we deserve it, but I've seen enough absolute bollocks that i've paid for the privilege of to not feel guilty about loving every minute of our current success.
