There is an uncomfortable truth behind Manchester City's on-field dominance of the Premier League in the last four seasons.
The narrative that the bumblers at Manchester United, and the shirt-tail clingers at Liverpool would have you believe is that Manchester City have simply thrown oodles of money at their football team, to become top dogs.
Nothing more, nothing less, just plain old lucre is what it takes, goes the argument, and the fact that they hatched and executed a plot to bring in one of the all-time great football coaches, who has shaped a carefully-selected group of players into a killing machine, is viewed as incidental.
