When it comes to winning the Champions League, Ferran Soriano says Manchester City “are not obsessed”. Well, they should be.
Soriano, the club’s widely-acclaimed chief executive, says the Premier League is the club’s “bread and butter” and that is fair enough. But you should not be spending caviar wages to pay for bread and butter only. The signing of Erling Haaland and the arrival of Kalvin Phillips will be dressed up as good business.
After all, the combined fee is something not too much above the mark paid for Jack Grealish and will be offset by the decent payment for Gabriel Jesus and the possible departure of Raheem Sterling. But the bottom line is that the City have acquired two of the most sought-after talents in football when they already had an embarrassment of riches.
