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Jika rencana ini benar-benar terwujud, maka revolusi yang pernah dilakukan Abramovich untuk Chelsea benar-benar tidak ada apa-apanya.

Pemain-pemain incaran dari Dari Dr. Sulaiman Al Fahim -pemilik Manchester City- untuk Starting Eleven Manchester City semuanya adalah para pemain kelas 1. Sebut saja kaka, Messi, C. Ronaldo, Torres ada di dalamnya.

Sepertinya mereka, macam Abramovich dan Al Fahim ini memandang sepakbola seperti kita memainkan Championship Manager, seperti sekedar mainan.

Manchester City Dream Team (4-2-2):

Gianluigi Guffon (£15m)
World Cup winner with Italy, he is unassailable at Juventus and narrowly edges out competition from Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas and Chelsea’s Petr Cech.

Sergio Ramos (£40m)
The Real Madrid right-back renowned for his dynamism on the wing and the accuracy of his passing.

Rio Ferdinand (£40m)
Indomitable at centre-back, his towering presence should see him become the next permanent captain of Manchester United.

Fabio Cannavaro (£10m)
An ageing force but supreme for Real Madrid and also the oldest recipient of Fifa’s World Player of the Year award.

Eric Abidal (£30m)
Underlining France’s surfeit of superlative left-backs, Abidal is only marginally preferred to United’s Patrice Evra.

Cristiano Ronaldo (£70m)
Maddening and mercurial, but indispensable – still with a £70 million price tag attached to his name, his acquisition could test even City’s boundless new wealth.

Steven Gerrard (£40m)
Provided he is played in the centre, his natural berth, is capable of transforming any game and remains peerless in this position.

Kaka (£60m)
It will be incongruous to see him only in the Uefa Cup this season, after Milan’s failure to qualify for the Champions League, but the Brazilian still has the silkiness of touch to grace any world XI.

Lionel Messi (£65m)
Often touted as the world’s best player, the Barcelona winger may be physically fragile but still has the wiles to terrorise any Premier League defence.

Fernando Torres (£45m)
The immediacy of his impact at Liverpool, and his winning goal for Spain in the Euro 2008 final, prompted City to make an audacious late transfer inquiry.

David Villa (£35m)
Underlined by a hat-trick in Spain’s first Euro 2008 group game that he was a lethal marksman even if he remains loyal to Valencia.

Manager: Guus Hiddink
Six Dutch titles with PSV Eindhoven, and now on to his fourth international team after leading South Korea to a World Cup semi-final, it is near impossible to fault his record.

Team value: £450 million (Kurs saat ini, 1 Poundsterling = IDR 16.300)