2017 in football: Guardiola’s vindication and new money’s corrosive effect

Daniel Storey reviews the football year.

The true rise of new money…

Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, the two pillars of football’s new money movement, suffered surprising collapses in 2016/17. City finished third in the Premier League and were eliminated in the last 16 of the Champions League, while PSG missed out on the Ligue 1 title to Monaco and suffered quarter-final second-leg calamity against Barcelona.