And Manchester City are not eight points clear because of Bernardo Silva. Most weeks, he can't get in the team.Guardiola's outlay is slightly more than £380m but that, too, does not explain why City have been so good this season.Give any FIFA Coins other manager £380m and a squad like Guardiola's would not have been assembled; give any manager Mansour money and at least one big ticket item would have been recruited.

The Qatari wealth behind Paris Saint-Germain has bought Neymar and Kylian Mbappe; Manchester United have spent £75m on Romelu Lukaku and £90m on Paul Pogba. Guardiola's most expensive signing is Benjamin Mendy, who will miss most of the season injured and was roughly half of what Pogba cost. Bernardo Silva is essentially the difference in spend between City and Manchester UnitedThose who consider Guardiola to have bought the league do not mention the singular nature of his recruitment; how different he is to the rest. 

He hasn't bought the league in the conventional way: world stars, big names, big strikers. He has a way of playing and pays top dollar for those who fit his strategy; but that is not the same.Walker is the perfect example of a Guardiola signing. When he was finally secured from 

Tottenham, the wisdom was that Daniel Levy had got the best of that deal.Tottenham's chairman was Buy FIFA Coins thought to have done it again. He had prised a ludicrously inflated fee from a club whose owner was corrupting the market with his foolish largesse.Tottenham then went out and bought Serge Aurier from PSG meaning, with the excellent Kieran Trippier, they were perceived to have the best of the deal.