City can't buy credibility

The Beatles sung 'Money Can't Buy Me Love' and that is certainly the case for moneybags Manchester City.
The Blue Mooners were certainly feeling blue after their incredible and obscene world record bid for Kaka failed and, to rub salt into the wounds, at the same time their other 'minor' signing in comparison, £32 million capture Robinho, was sat on a plane heading for Brazil to deal with a 'family matter'. His timing could not have been worse.
When the Arab billionaires took over the club it was seen as the dawning of a new era for City but recent developments raise the question 'are City ready to become a world player?'
It is comparable to a teenager winning the lottery; he may have the cash but doesn't know how to spend it wisely and isn't taken seriously.
Kaka's rejection of the move to Eastlands because 'City weren't prepared' with a personal offer will only add to that belief that City are a club trying to run on the world stage before they have learned to walk.
Signing Craig Bellamy for a ridiculously over-inflated price tag will not help their credibility either.
In time, there is no doubt City could become the force their new owners wish them to be but a club cannot be thrust from a side that is content merely to remain in the Premier League to a major player on the domestic and international stage over night.
Perhaps they should refer to another Beatles track - The Long and Winding Road.