Wenger warns City cash won’t ensure success

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger accepts rival clubs cannot berate Manchester City for trying to buy the Barclays Premier League title, but warned there is “no given formula” for success.

Since Sheikh Mansour bought the Eastlands club from Thaksin Shinawatra in 2008, around £1 billion (€1.17 billion) has been invested by the Abu Dhabi-based owners.

Yet for all their big spending, Arsenal — who sold both Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure to City in July 2009 — would move above City back into second place with victory at the Emirates Stadium tonight.