Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen has taken fresh aim at title rivals Manchester City. The Dutchman has slammed City's mega spending claiming it is scattergun.

"City has got a sort of different policy, right?" Meulensteen told Red News. "It's the quick-fix, so to speak.

"I know the owners, I've been in the Middle East myself, I know a little bit the mentality of the Arabs and it's keep on spending, spending, spending until they've got it, right.

"There's no foundation based on a long-term sort of thing. If you look at the squad in general, they are all mid-20s, established players.

"So you've got experience and all this, that and the other, so really that's the way that they wanted to go. They've got hold of that champions [status] now.

"We know as no other club what it is to win the league and then start again. Right, it is hard, it is difficult, the motivation is different, certainly the pressures they have to deal with is different."