If you can't buy more talent, just grow your own at home

MANCHESTER, England - Big-spending Manchester City aims to develop home-grown talent as it seeks to conform to European financial fair play rules, and to that end it submitted plans on Monday for a training center it believes will be the best in the world.

Since being taken over by Sheikh Mansour three years ago, City has spent more than 600 million pounds ($947 million) on building a team that is among the favorites for the Premier League title.

That level of spending is unsustainable in the long-term though, the club says, and would also be difficult under European governing body UEFA's new financial fair play rules that aim to stop reckless spending on wages and transfer fees.