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A decade of change: The making of the modern Man City

Part one of Goal's look at the 10-year anniversary of Manchester City's takeover focuses on the transformations that have taken place at the club

It didn’t take long for change to take hold at Manchester City.

“We had a lot of staff members from Thailand, they were the ones who welcomed me when I signed for the club,” remembers Vincent Kompany, who arrived from Hamburg on August 22, 2008. “From one day to the other, they were all gone and Robinho was in the dressing room. That’s when you realised things were changing.

“We went away for international games around that time and they changed everything.