article_snippet.sent: City boss Manuel Pellegrini has been hampered over the past year by UEFA restricting The spending restrictions to a net transfer spend of £49million in each window and keeping Club's’s overall wage bill to Club's current level of £205million-a-year.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester City have been limited to a net spend of £49million in the last two transfer windows - £49million spent £25m bringing Wilfried Bony in from Swansea in January .
article_snippet.sent: We spend money, of course We always spend money, but money spent more.’ Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool and Arsenal have all paid more in transfer fees in the past 12 months than City who were traditionally Europe’s biggest spenders after the club was taken over by Abu Dhabi owners in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Arsenal have paid more in transfer fees than City in the last 12 months, including £30m on Alexis Sanchez .
article_snippet.sent: Eliaquim Mangala joined the champions from Porto for £32m last summer .
article_snippet.sent: The reigning Premier League champions have only paid money for Fernando, Willie Caballero, Eliaquim Mangala and Wilfried Bony in the last two transfer windows and that was part-paid by the sales of Javi Garcia and Jack Rodwell.
article_snippet.sent: Since the transfer penalties were introduced, City have spent £91million on players in the last two windows (Net spend £68million).
article_snippet.sent: That compares to Manchester United £145.5million, Liverpool £113million, Arsenal £92.5million and Chelsea £82.6million.
article_snippet.sent: Over the same time period Barcelona spent £118.3million on players and Real Madrid £81.2million though they also broke the world transfer record for Gareth Bale the previous summer.
highlights_snippet.sent: Manchester City have been restricted to a net transfer spend of £49m .
  