Is Manchester Blue Now?
Is Manchester Blue?
Manchester United and Manchester City have undergone a major transformation in recent years. England’s most successful football club, Man United, is in danger of losing this title with unsuccessful results in recent years. Manchester City, which was an ordinary team about 12–13 years ago, has been referred to as the most dominant team in the English league in recent years. Manchester City, whose fate changed with the purchase of Arab investors, is now one of the best football teams not only in England but also in the world. Having always witnessed the success of Manchester United in the past, the city is now happy with Manchester City. This begs the question, is Manchester blue now?
Actually, it’s not just about investments and investors. While the success of Manchester City is seen by many as completely proportional to this, I do not think so. Because almost every team in England has an investor, but not every one of them can dominate the league like City. Manchester City, which has been in the race every time in recent years, completes the league with trophies and cups. This is not a job that can only be told with investors. There are also big investments and investors on the other side of Manchester. Glazers, the owner of Manchester United, has devoted huge budgets for the team over the past few years, but success never came. So much so that Manchester United have spent exactly 776.68 million euros in the last 5 years, and the number of trophies the team has won in the last 5 years is only three. (1 FA Cup, 1 English Cup, 1 Europa League) The fact that they could not achieve their target despite spending so much proves that this is not just about investments and expenditures. When we compare the two clubs based on the last 10 years, the difference in success is striking. From the perspective of Manchester United, we see how the failure process after Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement decision has changed the balance of competition. After Alex Ferguson retired after 27 years as Manchester United manager in June 2013, many things have not gone as planned for Manchester United. In his 27 years at ManU, Ferguson played 1,285 games and won 38 trophies. When he took office, there was a Manchester United who had to follow the championships of their arch-rival Liverpool. Despite the unsuccessful results in his first years, he stayed in Manchester and spent an incredible 27 years making Manchester the best team in England. Ending Liverpool’s overwhelming dominance in the 70s and 80s, Ferguson left his mark on the 90s and 2000s. He continued with the young players he believed in his talent and made many footballers legends of Manchester United. Man United had only 7 titles until the 1992/1993 season, when he won his first championship in Manchester. It had been 26 years since your last championship before Ferguson. He took the first step of a great revolution by including young people such as Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, David Beckham and Ryan Giggs in the Manchester squad, as well as experienced and qualified players in the squad that won his first championship in 1993.
Manchester United, which has marked the last 30 years with these names, is now looking for those days. Man United, which was virtually unrivaled in Europe and England during the Ferguson era, also had a great hegemony in Manchester. While the reds of Manchester went from success to success, the blue side was experiencing great depressions and failures. Manchester City, which had only 2 championships until it met with the Arabs in the 2010s, won its last championship before that date in 1968. Man City, which had quite unsuccessful years in the intervening years, succeeded in winning only 2 league champions, 1 European cup ,1 FA cup in 43 years. In this process, Man City, which was in the middle and last places, had to look at the success of Manchester United for years. At the time, the slogan “Manchester is red” became the question “Is Manchester blue now?” with the now dominant Manchester City. So how did this transformation really happen?pending this much proves that it is not just about investments and expenditures.
The transformation began in 2008 when Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan bought Manchester City Football Club. Entering the 2008/2009 season with sensational transfers, Manchester City gave hope that something will change for the future, even though he finishes that season in tenth place. The following year, Italian Roberto Mancini was appointed as the head of the team and the 2009/2010 season entered again with big transfers. Manchester City, which attracted attention first in fifth place and third in the following year, allocated a large budget for the 2011/2012 season. City, which was also in the Champions League that year, despite being unable to leave the group, became the champion in the English League after 43 years, ahead of its arch-rival Manchester United, with Sergio Agüero’s unforgettable last-minute goal. With this unforgettable victory, Manchester City has now shown to the whole England that they have a say in PL. After finishing 2012/2013 behind Manchester United with Ferguson, he became the champion again in 2013/2014. Being second in 2014/2015, fourth in 2015/2016, and third in 2016/2017, they always participated in the Champions League by being in the top 4 even when they were not champions. In addition, they won the English League Cup 2 times in these 3 years. With the year 2017/2018, Man City has become an unbeatable team. In 2018, they became champions with 100 points, 19 points ahead of their closest rival Man United, and made history with only 2 defeats that year. The following year, he won an incredible title race with Liverpool to become the PL champion for the second time in a row with 97 points. Man City, who lost the championship to Liverpool after being affected by factors such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019/2020, once again became the PL champion with a dominant performance in 2020/2021. Manchester City have won 3 Premier Leagues, 5 English League Cups, 1 FA Cup and 2 English Super Cups in the last 5 years. Lastly, Manchester City, which lost to Chelsea in the 2021 Champions League final last year, missed the opportunity to carry its hegemony in recent years to Europe at the last moment.
Despite this, they were appreciated all over the world with an incredible season performance. Having won championships with world stars such as Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden, İlkay Gündoğan, Bernardo Silva and Sergio Agüero, especially under the leadership of Pep Guardiola, Man City has successfully accomplished many things in order to become the new master of the city of Manchester. With Man United failing despite their massive post-Ferguson expenditures and Man City having quite the opposite success, who is Manchester’s greatest? actually answers the question. The clear Man United dominance of the past is gone and Man City is the new master of Manchester with this performance.
SO MANCHESTER IS BLUE NOW!
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