topflight

While City is the first English team to win four topflight titles, it is certainly not the first to enjoy a prolonged period of success.

The $95 million spent on Antony has not provided the sort of return fans would have expected, with the Brazil winger struggling to adapt to the English topflight.

Alvero then salvaged a point for Lyon with his first goal in the topflight, a curled strike.

The much-traveled Hadzibegic had multiple coaching experiences, including stints at Sochaux — which he guided to the French topflight — Betis and Turkish sides Gaziantepspor, Diyarbakirspor and Denizlispor.

Union’s only target for its fourth season in the topflight was to avoid relegation.