Man City spent huge £1.2BILLION on 76 transfers during period of financial breaches You Should Know

MANCHESTER City splashed a massive £1.2billion on new players in a nine-season period during their cataclysmic waves of financial charges.

Reports from The Athletic say that they have been found guilty on all but one of their 115 breaches – but the panel has not decided on an appropriate and proportionate punishment yet.

Across the seasons from 2009/10 to 2017/18, Man City brought in a mind-blowing 76 transfers with the most expensive signing only costing £55m. 

While some arrivals became club legends, others disappeared almost as quickly as they arrived.

Either way it all started with Carlos Tevez.

The Argentine’s blockbuster £25.5m move ushered in a new era for City in 2009/10. 

Tevez – who had spent the two previous seasons on loan at rivals Manchester United – made 42 appearances in his first season. 

He scored 29 goals and provided seven assists, helping City to secure fifth place – from tenth the year before – and Europa League football. 

The season before they had finished tenth. 

From the next season, they began pulling together the building blocks of a title-winning side with the box office signings of Yaya Toure and David Silva at £24m apiece. 

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Toure scored the winner against United in the 2011 FA Cup semi-final before doing it again against Stoke at Wembley to deliver the club’s first major trophy in 35 years.

Together the pair won three Premier League titles, three Carabao Cups, one FA Cup, and a Community Shield. 

Then, in 2011, came the name that changed it all: Sergio Aguero. 

City paid Atletico Madrid around £38m for the 23-year-old striker in the summer of 2011, making him their club-record signing.

Upon his arrival he declared: “We are a team that in future will be fighting every year to win major trophies.”

And the Argentine was not lying. 

He became City’s all-time leading scorer, but even without everything that followed he would have been immortalised by the 93.20 strike that claimed the 2011/12 title.

But not every window brought a record-breaking Argentine star for City to cement their status. 

The transfer business for 2012/13 was far less glamorous.

Javi Garcia was the headline arrival, arriving from Benfica for around £16m. 

Unfortunately for them, they were forced to watch as United pipped them to the league title – finishing 11 points ahead as Roberto Mancini walked away. 

They were back in action in 2013 with Manuel Pellegrini’s rebuild leading them to the double. 

Fernandinho was initially seen as an expensive 28-year-old from Shakhtar Donetsk. 

He arrived with a £30m price tag. But soon proved his worth, bridging the gap between the Pellegrini and Pep Guardiola eras.

The subsequent window left them spending £62.42m more than they earned from their departures. 

Eliaquim Mangala came top of the big money buys, boasting a £38.75m fee. 

The French defender spent two seasons in the Prem in the hope he could transform into Vincent Kompany’s long-term partner.

Instead he started a journeyman career on loan across Europe. 

And then came the big guns. 

City broke their transfer record to bring the former Chelsea midfielder Kevin De Bruyne – at £55m – back to England from Wolfsburg. 

Alongside him former Three Lions star Raheem Sterling, who made the shock move from Liverpool as one of the most expensive English players ever at the time at £44m.

And once Guardiola had arrived, he wasted no time getting stars in the squad who could shape the next decade.

Pep’s first City purchase was Ilkay Gundogan, brought in from Borussia Dortmund for around £21m.

He waded through serious early injury trouble BUT ultimately became captain, a serial title winner and one of the club’s most decisive midfielders.

John Stones, who arrived from Everton for around £47.5m, became one of the most expensive defenders in history at the time. 

Winger Leroy Sane followed from Schalke with a £37m price tag attached. 

The winger impressed in his debut season, even winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award during another title-winning season in 2017/18.

But Guardiola and City were not going to call time there.

They went on to complete a major shopping spree in the transfer market picking up the likes of Kyle Walker (£45m), Bernardo Silva (£43m), and Ederson (£35m). 

City also got the chequebook out for Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy (£49.5m) and Real Madrid’s Danilo (£25.8m), before Aymeric Laporte (£55.9m) arrived in January 2018. 

And from that they saw results, on results. 

Guardiola’s side finished the campaign with 100 POINTS becoming the first team in Premier League history to reach it – and bowed out of the season 19 points clear of second place.