As the teams take to the pitch in Eastlands on Saturday two teams will meet who have a very similar ownership structure and transfer policy. Whilst Chelsea have stopped their mega-spending they did attempt to assemble a squad of the best players at any cost after their initial take over, Manchester City have had to continue to try to ‘buy' success.

Week 5 offered up some tasty results, others fairly mundane and some quite boring, while the midweek League Cup matches left some supporters surprised, some downtrodden and others maybe even suicidal. Week 6 promises to at least get the weekend's fixtures started off right as Manchester City welcome Chelsea to The City of Manchester Stadium.

UEFA supremo Michel Platini has again been giving us his man of the people, greed is bad routine:
UEFA president Michel Platini has declared the new regulations to halt excessive spending will bring an end to the transfer market "anarchy".
The organisation are set to gradually implement new financial fair play rules from next season in attempt to keep a lid on club debt and create a level playing field.

The summer transfer window came to a close at the stroke of midnight on September 1st and some clubs waited until August 31st to complete several deals to strengthen their squads or lighten their wage load. Here are the highlights of Deadline Day which could effect the Premiership lansdcape.

Rafael van der Vaart (Real Madrid to Tottenham Hotspur – £8m):Famous for snubbing Manchester United a few summers ago for the seemingly richer pastures of the Bernabeu, the last of the Dutch contingent at Real Madrid signed with the London club late on the 31st.

By Chris Wright

After failing to dislodge the club's owners with their fairly futile 'green and gold' campaign, Manchester United supporters are now planning to attempt another coup by staging a fearsome 'old shirt' protest.

Various supporters' groups are backing a move that would involve fans sporting United shirts that pre-date the Glazers' 2005 takeover (would they even realise what the significance was?

It's hard to go a league weekend lately without some note on how absolutely insane the Bundesliga is this season. Not only is Bayern Munich struggling, but really all of the major powers in the German top flight are toward the bottom of the table. We've all heard that the Bundesliga is rising, both in quality and in finances, but the biggest teams are doing just the opposite.

Unless you died at some point this summer, you've heard that LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers and decided to take his talents to South Beach. And with that move, LeBron James went from superhero to America's biggest enemy. A basketball fan with any knowledge realizes that LeBron pressed the easy button on his NBA career.

My favorite English football club may not be very good. Okay, they're definitely not very good. But what West Ham United tends to lack in on-field acumen, they tend to make up for in wildly entertaining storylines. Just within the last four years they've been rescued from foreclosure at the hand of the Icelandic national bank by two brash billionaire pornographers.

I have a new piece in Slate about the Hicks-Gillett-Glazers tycoon implosion and the fan protests at Liverpool and Manchester United. While I was working on the piece, it occurred to me that in this age of billionaire owners, in which every club, no matter how Portsmouth-y, can be plausibly linked to a gasp-wrenching imaginary stock portfolio, there are two kinds of billionaires: billionaires and fake billionaires.

Has David Moyes taken Everton as far as they can go? Or has he been hindered by the growing price of being in the Premier League?..

David Moyes has been at Everton since March 2002 and is the third longest serving Manager in the Premiership at the moment. However, recently the Scot has been under much scrutiny from the media and Everton fans concerning the clubs recent form.