Manchester City is a team rife with factions.
In fact, every top professional league club has various factions within.
But compared to other Premier League teams, Manchester City's situation is more complex!
Unlike Chelsea, which also rose with financial backing, Chelsea could already play in the Champions League before Abu took over.
About a decade ago, Manchester City was just a mid-to-lower league team, struggling every year to avoid relegation.
As a Premier League powerhouse that rose in a short time with the help of petroleum capital, the team gathered numerous top players from all over the world, much like Emperor Tang Taizong's ambition of "all heroes under heaven in my grasp."
Because of this, Manchester City's locker room gathered players of different nationalities, races, and cultural backgrounds, disrupting the team's previously stable ecosystem in a short time.
