Billions of pounds of investment from Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners over the past decade has reaped three Premier League titles and transformed the blue half of Manchester from "noisy neighbours" into the dominant side in the city.
However, the Premier League champions travel to Liverpool on Sunday hoping to finally achieve something that has so far been beyond City's cash-rich era -- a win at Anfield.
City were last victorious at Anfield in 2003 and have lost 12 of their last 17 visits.
The most recent of those saw City's Champions League dreams ended for another year in the cauldron of a European night on Merseyside with a 3-0 quarter-final first leg defeat.
A coach not accustomed to losing, City boss Pep Guardiola has been defeated on all three of his visits to Anfield and in Jurgen Klopp faces one of the few managers who can boast a winning record against the Catalan.
Just seven games into the Premier League season, no knockout blow can be landed this weekend.
But with both sides only separated by City's superior goal difference at the top of the table having dropped just two points each so far this season, the clash will go a long way to telling if Liverpool are capable of knocking Guardiola's men off their perch.
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"But as a player there is not much more that you can achieve than playing these type of games, because when you play them or when the atmosphere is like that, you know it's a big thing."
"There is no real way, no one thing that you have to do."