Sorry I'll try to dumb it down.Yeye let me just stop you there. Don't know why you felt the need to explain financial fair play rules when all I'm asking is where you got marketing from the net spend because most sources most likely including the image above tend to list net spend as transfer in/out not the clubs total expenditure.
Using net spend as a way to measure transfer success/how much a club is spending when one of the clubs is able to buy/sell such players with an infrastructure built by a state that wishes to achieve political strides so can invest in such resources rather than Americans greedy for profits isn't viable. Especially when the net spend stats are from post-Pep which is years after the abuse of the system. Dirty beginnings has put you in a spot where you can apparently claim the falsified high ground of net spend ignoring the roots of the finance.
This is years after you already had the highest net spend in the league, as a tiny club, which people tend to forget because apparently football only started a few years ago. The reason investment isn't as large as it once was is because the initial breach of FFP has put City in position to use revenue, which should never have been possible.
A team that had won 50%+ of the titles since the PL creation vs a team that wasn't even in the prem for years...