Fergie blasts City’s ‘kamikaze’ spending

SIR Alex Ferguson expects Manchester City to carry on spending until they realise money alone can’t guarantee success.

Ferguson chose the day City unveiled their latest big–money signing, Mario Balotelli, and confirmed James Milner was having a medical, to make his feelings known. He had previously claimed City are fuelling unsustainable wage inflation.

"The kind of spending we are seeing at the moment will be here for two or three years, until such time as they understand you can't necessarily achieve all the time by spending," said Ferguson.

The Manchester United manager was careful not to mention City by name, nor any of their players, including Yaya Toure, who is said to be costing the Eastlands outfit a staggering £220,000–a–week.