I think how you describe Man City can be applied to all the big clubs in the Premier League TBH Ferrite, it’s all about money and I don’t see Chelsea or Man U or Liverpool or Arsenal and now even Newcastle being any different.
No you can’t: Man United, Arsenal & Liverpool are owned by American investors, rightly or wrongly. But they’re not owned by a country which is accused of funding the football club through payments disguised as sponsorship. Nor are they accused to trying to cover up this illicit activity.
Chelsea is a closer case in point, Abramovich should never have been allowed to buy the club and use it the way he did.
I agree that all of the big clubs are only interested in making more money for themselves and not in the good of the game but Man United is a very different beast from Man City.