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Manchester City substantially improved their football finance position through taking part in their friendly with Barcelona last week, it has been revealed.
According to eufootball.biz, the English Premier League outfit earned over $1 million from the fixture, which they went on to win 1-0.
Martin Petrov scored the game's only goal in the first half and manager Mark Hughes thought the friendly helped his team gain some experience of how they would need to play against clubs of the calibre of the European champions.
He said: "One of the main reasons I agreed to the game was because I felt it was an experience we needed.
"We are a young team, we are developing as a team and the opportunity to come to the European champions, compete with them, was vitally important."
Meanwhile, Manchester City have continued their recent spending spree by splashing out a reported £22 million on Everton defender Joleon Lescott.
This takes their spending in the last 12 months past the £216 million barrier with other purchases including Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure from Arsenal and Gareth Barry from Aston Villa.
Written by Tom Jenkins
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21 October 2010
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