Bayern Munich chief Philipp Lahm has rejected the idea Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain can purchase the Champions League title.
Lahm will lead out Bayern at Juventus Stadium on Tuesday night for his 100th appearance in European football's world class club rivalry as the German and Italian champions meet in the principal leg of their round-of-16 tie.
The 32-year-old has spent his whole profession at Bayern, bar a two-year advance spell at Stuttgart, and trusts players who relate to a specific club give a spine on which achievement can be fabricated.
"Glancing back at my matches following 2002, there is one fundamental criteria for me which denote a club that is effective in the long haul: enormous players, who developed with their clubs, whose names are fixing to the achievement and who have a 100 for every penny distinguishing proof with the group, the club and its history," he said.
"When I consider the matches and rivalries, I promptly consider the conflicts with these sort of clubs and their awesome players.
"With Barcelona it was Xavi and Andres Iniesta, with Real Madrid it was Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos.
"When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United I instantly think about the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea it was John Terry. Those players are images of their clubs and the achievement they had around then.
"I am persuaded that every huge group had these images and I am persuaded that future enormous groups need them too. Enormous groups require a center of players who have their roots at their clubs, who develop with their clubs and who epitomize the way of life, speaking to it on the pitch and off it too."
Supported by Middle Eastern venture, PSG and City have spent vigorously to arrive their first Champions League crown with little achievement.
"I don't think you can purchase a truly awesome group with cash, similar to Paris Saint-Germain or Manchester City are attempting. Air conditioning Milan would never have been the same club without Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi and they positively would have never had the same measure of accomplishment," Lahm told Goal.
"At the point when two major groups meet on the huge stage, there are positively two costly groups with an immense measure of individual quality. At last the club that will win is the one that has more players on the pitch who need achievement regardless. Furthermore for themselves, as well as for their clubs as well.
"When we won the Champions League in 2013, we figured out how to do it with a group that had worked for that accomplishment for a considerable length of time. A group that needed to win it. For them, as well as for their club too.
"What's more, I number Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery in on this one. Throughout the years, they have disguised Bayern's personality. Recognizable proof is not a matter of nationality, it is a matter of confessing to something totally.
"What's more, that is the reason I am anticipating meeting Juventus, with players such as Gianluigi Buffon. Buffon is Juve.
"It will be a match against a major club. My 100th match in the Champions League. In FC Bayern's pullover, that I've developed into since 2002."
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