Man City are a big club?

Micah Richards has sad that Man City need to achieve a position in the top six this season. Is this going to happen?

Is Fergie corect in saying that they are not a bgig club? I reckon he is correct and for all the money they will get to buy success, they will never be the massive club they want to be.

What do you think?

http://www.loserscomesecond.com/2009/07/ferguson-accuses-city-of-arrogance.html

City are not a big club. They are a rich club, and they are now a competitive club, but they're not a big club.

They have no history of success, they have no attraction to the world best players other than the wages they're prepared to pay. These are the facts.

Ferguson was a touch hypocritical when he described them as a small club, especially seeing as he castigated Benitez for saying similar things about Everton. But there are differences between the two, I believe.

There are many ways of judging if a club is big or not and most of them change from season to season, however i will concentrate on one factor that hasn't changed about my club city over the last few decades, and that is our huge fan base, 28000 in the 3rd division and now 47000 plus most games at Eastlands, yeah i know 5000 of them have now turned up suddenly the money and potential for success is finally back but all clubs have 'glory hunters'.