Man City have enjoyed a dominant decade with multiple domestic titles coming to the Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City cult hero Shaun Wright-Phillips has admitted that he did not think the Citizens would have transformed into an elite, silverware-dominating club "this quickly", in conversation with the Man City website.
The Etihad Stadium outfit has enjoyed a superb decade, winning four Premier League titles, two FA Cups and four League Cups over the past 10 years, plus regularly getting to the latter stages of tournaments.
When Man City won the 2011 FA Cup, it ended a major trophy drought of 35 years, during which they had some pretty lean times, including the painful drop to the Second Division in 1998-99, made even more difficult to swallow by the success their neighbours were having at the time.
No such issues now, with the blue side of Manchester now very much on top in the city, and Wright-Phillips, who came through the ranks at Maine Road and had two spells for the club either side of a stint at Chelsea, suggested that he is somewhat surprised by the speed in which this transformation has come about.
“I would more say I didn’t think it would happen this quickly," he told the Man City website when he asked if he ever believed the club would be parading six major trophies on a global tour.
“What the club have built has been fast in terms of dominating the country, and to a point Europe even though we fell at a late hurdle last season. People now fear Manchester City and that doesn’t normally happen this quickly.”
Up next for Man City is Sunday's Premier League trip to Bournemouth.
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