STEALING A MARCH! Five crucial transfers Man City landed ahead of their rivals during guilty period to help set up Etihad dynasty

The fallout from Manchester City's guilty verdict continues - even if the Premier League side protest their innocence and will appeal - and the impact of their nine-season period of rule breaking continues to be underlined.

After years of the investigation dragging on the club were finally found guilty of breaching 114 of the 115 charges levelled against them by an independent commission. The impact of their actions have been far reaching, going from teams who missed out on trophies to those who feel their relegations were impacted by City.

As well as the on-pitch impact, there's the influence City were able to have off it, notably in the transfer market. Their inflated revenue streams gave them the scope to attack the market hard, flexing their financial muscle in a world where FFP regulations had just come into play.

Their wrongdoing goes from the 2009/10 season and extends to 2017/18 - a period in which they won three league titles and completed numerous big name transfers - some for record amounts.

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They went toe-to-toe with some of their major rivals to land certain individuals, the majority of whom helped them win major pieces of silverware. But had City been without that financial power then plenty of players would've ended up calling other places home - be that Anfield, Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford.

We take a look at some of the deals that City managed to pull off, often down to them paying more in transfer fees or wages, which saw fellow English sides miss out.

After proving to be Aston Villa's main man for years Liverpool made moves to sign the Englishman. One man who took issue with that move was Xabi Alonso, his frustration so evident that a year after the Reds failed to sign Barry, he chose to join Real Madrid.

Liverpool would end up seeing five bids for Barry turned down. A year later, in 2009, City would secure a deal for £12million and his wages of £100,000-a-week were more than double his salary at Villa Park.

Early on in the Abu Dhabi regime City were determined to land marquee names - Robinho and Carlos Tevez to list just two. And in 2010, after he'd helped Spain win the World Cup for the first time, Silva chose to move to the Etihad.

The playmaker had been impressing for years at Valencia and his signing was a major coup. City's financial power was enough to dwarf the Roman Abramovich wealth at Chelsea with the then Premier League champions reluctantly withdrawing their interest when they established how serious City were.

Seemingly unable to make the grade at Chelsea, it was City who decided the Belgian was good enough for the Premier League. They spent £54.5m - which was the second highest transfer fee ever paid by a British club at the time. The move came following a season that saw De Bruyne named the German Footballer of the Year.

Wolfsburg wanted to keep him and their director of sport Klaus Allofs acknowledged that they could not compete with City's "astonishing" salary offer. Without such financial power, maybe he'd have remained at the Bundesliga club, maybe Bayern Munich would've come knocking, who knows.

The highly-rated Brazilian had come through the ranks at Palmeiras and Europe's elite were eyeing him up. But it was Pep Guardiola and City who were able to convince him that Manchester was the best destination for him.

He would sign and join months later, helping City win four league titles. He would move to Arsenal in 2022, and who knows if he'd have won multiple titles at the Emirates if City were not the force they'd become.

The Argentine was perhaps the defining signing of this City regime. Taking him from Manchester United, who had offered to keep him on but were told no, and who can forget the famous 'Welcome to Manchester' blue poster that had Tevez celebrating - almost goading their rivals.

City are thought to have paid Tevez's advisors, who owned his economic rights, £25.5m to sign him. That in itself would later open up all sorts of questions over who really owned Tevez and dictated his direction of travel.