Nevertheless, their proud history means Inter will be in Saturday's final to win it. Their revenue was more than double that of Inter, a club swimming in enormous debts.
Money talks more than ever in football, and City topped this year's Deloitte Football Money League with revenue of over 700 million euros ($749m). No Italian club has lifted the trophy since. This is their sixth final altogether, and first since Jose Mourinho's team triumphed in 2010, completing a treble of their own. They are one of Europe's grand old names, having won the European Cup twice in the 1960s. Simone Inzaghi's Inter may have something to say about that, however, and perhaps being the underdog will suit the Nerazzurri. “If we want to make a definitive step as a big club, we must win in Europe,“ Guardiola, who joined City in 2016, told. His goals appear to have taken City to another level, and Guardiola seems poised to finally win a third Champions League, 12 years after claiming a second in three seasons with Barcelona. Ilkay Gundogan was City's goal hero in the FA Cup final, as Erling Haaland drew a rare blank, but the Norwegian has scored 52 times for his club this season. United were the last English club to achieve the treble, in 1999. The players who have been here for five or six years who have seen these sorts of defeats, we have learnt from them so that helps us to grow as a team.”Ī victory for City will see them complete the treble after they claimed a fifth Premier League title in six seasons and then lifted the FA Cup last weekend, beating Manchester United 2-1 in the final. “The whole team have seen a lot of victories but also defeats as well. “We have all been working for this for a long time,“ City goalkeeper Ederson, at the club since 2017, said this week. Having exacted revenge on Madrid, the holders, in this season's last four with a 5-1 aggregate triumph, they are now expected to complete the job at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium. They came agonisingly close to Champions League glory in 2021, losing narrowly to Chelsea in the final, before being denied in last year's semi-finals by a remarkable Real Madrid comeback. ISTANBUL: Manchester City are hoping to get their hands on the Champions League trophy at last, and complete a historic treble, when Pep Guardiola's team face outsiders Inter Milan in Saturday's final in Istanbul.Ĭity have been building towards winning Europe's elite club competition since the Abu Dhabi-backed takeover of 2008 which transformed them and helped reshape the sport on the continent.
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