It’s such a daft argument, considering United have spent like feck yet ended up behind Leicester, fecking Everton, and Spurs plenty, etc and the same with Arsenal; the honest truth is that City’s dominance and finance fiddling has robbed some proper football clubs of a chance to do something special once Fergie retired.
Instead we’ll have City making Fergie’s dominance (13 in 20 seasons after his first title) look like child’s play when they win something like 8 out of 10 titles.
Allowing a state owner hasn’t been somehow good for the game by breaking up a Bayern Munich esque dominance, it’s done the exact opposite, when teams had their chance post Fergie, it’s instead created the most dominant team in PL history, hitting 90+ points every season, already with a treble, already winning a record 5 of the last 6 titles. It’s been horrendous for the game.
We weren’t allowed (rightfully so) to be taken over by Sky, due to the financial disparity that would have created, so of course a bottomless pit of oil state money should have been blocked.