Newcastle United were swept aside on Sunday as Man City almost certainly sealed the Premier League title. A bit of English football died that day. Man City have undermined the integrity of the sport financially, competitively, and morally.24 million Toure scored the goals, the stand-out performer amongst the 82 million Man City midfield. Do we need another scary statistic? Well, their starting 11 cost 179 million, with collective wages of over 1 million per week. Say what you like about Mancinis managerial qualities, Citys fight back when the title seemed beyond them, or simply the feat of out manoeuvring Alex Ferguson; Manchester City have bought the Premier League trophy.There are numerous economic reasons why the oil-rich billionaires toy is having a drastic affect on football, but lets start with the most obvious. Football is a sport built on very simple ethics; a succe sful club is built on a tradition, and it is built on slow progre s.Manchester Uniteds current position has come from decades of brilliance. Their stadium Anthony Gose Jersey , their fan base, their commercial power, their ability to attract players in short, their succe s is built from a long history of achievement, each contributing to the next generation, each weaving a stronger thread into the complex tapestry of their succe s. The same can be said of Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Aston Villa, and Everton (amongst others).In modern football, succe s is dependent on money. Whether you see this as a ble sing or a curse, it is difficult to deny. A succe sful league season will be rewarded with George Springer Jersey prize money or lucrative European football, which will allow a club to build towards the top. Villa almost got there, Tottenham are getting close. Manchester City, on the other hand, skipped this bit, pretending they were a big club and producing money out of nowhere.As an Aston Villa fan, let me use the Villa as an example of how football is supposed to work. Founded by 4 men convening under a lamp post in 1874, Villa became one of the worlds biggest clubs in the Victorian era. Slowly gaining household status after FA cup and league succe s, crowds flocked to watch the Villans, leading to an eventual move to a larger ground, now known as Villa Park. Over the next hundred years the stadium and fan base grew, with Aston Villa remaining a famous name in European football. Today, the 40 000 capacity stadium, the clubs financial position, and the clubs Premier League status, are all a result of this chain of succe s.Man City have not grown to their current position. They have produced money from an industry that has nothing to do with football, and used it to buy the worlds best players, cheating the system and frankly destroying the integrity of club football.Man Citys rise to Premier league champions has been anything but organic, and to achieve a rapid ascent to succe s relies on incredible transfer sprees. Since there is not an infinite pool of world cla s players, this inevitably hinders the progre s of those clubs who have persevered with a more traditional, honest approach, before seeing the talent they have nurtured lured by Citys billions. Their signings ripped the heart out of Arsenal, Aston Villa, Everton, Newcastle, Valencia, West Ham the list goes on. Everton, fighting heroically for European football on a small budget, had Joleon Lescott lured away from them in their prime. Aston Villa, desperately trying to finish in the top 4 and consolidate their rebirth under Lerner and ONeill, saw captain Gareth Barry and playmaker James Milner taken from them in succe sive seasons, with the latter transfer culminating in the Evan Gattis Jersey resignation of the manager. Wengers endle sly transitional Arsenal side were cut down by the sales of Kolo Toure, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri to Man City.Of course, the reason these players leave is because Man City can offer wages and transfer fees that are (seemingly) impo sible to refuse. Prepared to make a substantial year on year lo s, the amount they invest is e sentially free money; there are no repercu sions for spending grotesque amounts on footballers that will bring them trophies. It is quite simply an abuse of economic power, treating the structural integrity of the sport carele sly, with no consideration for the long term effects of their actions on the industry as a whole. Losing one billion pounds in four years may not affect Manchester City, Tyler Clippard Jersey but it has huge repercu sions on the rest of English football.It is common knowledge that the debt of English clubs is spiralling out of control. This is almost entirely due to inflated transfer fees and increasing wage demands that do not correlate with the finances of top level football. 17 of the Premier Leagues 20 clubs are making a lo s each year; that is a failing industry. Millions of pounds are written off every season, making players and agents wealthier and football clubs (and fans) poorer.When did it get out of control? Certainly football finances have been managed ineptly acro s the board, but the game never really got out of control until the creation of the Premier League, and the first ludicrous football investment at Blackburn Rovers. Rovers would win the league in 1996 after creating a dream team from the millions made available for transfers, but being built without lasting foundations, their decline was almost as rapid as their ascent.This story, along with similar exploits at Leeds in the late 1990s, Chelsea in 2004 and Man City in 2008 had an enormous impact on the market, doubling or even tripling the valuation of footballing talent and raising wage expectations. Abramovich can flippantly throw 50 million at Fernando Torres, but any club without the luxury of being able to record a Andy Pettitte Jersey lo s, cannot afford the knock on effect of inflated fees.There is an undeniable correlation between the over-paying of Blackburn, Leeds, Chelsea and Man City during their periods of heavy spending, and the overall inflation of player valuations. The trickle down effect of this is hard to see, but football economists claim that an increase in the average price of a premier league player increases the valuation of players at every level. Teams in the lower divisions of English football cannot make up this gap without serious consequences.In a conventional confined economic system, a market will fluctuate based on supply and demand. Logic would a sume that clubs would baulk at inflated fees and refuse to pay them, thus bringing prices back down. Unfortunately, the stakes are too high for such stubbornne s.Since the creation of the Premier League in 1991, TV deals have become an integral element of football finance, and short term succe s is crucial in maintaining TV income (such is the disparate spread of generated revenue). Relegation threatened clubs cannot afford to risk refusing increased transfer fees. Short term failure could cost them upwards of 60 million in the following fi