Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne feels he would have had a better chance of succeeding at Chelsea had the Stamford Bridge side paid big money for him.

The Belgium international joined Chelsea from Genk in January 2012 for a transfer fee in the region of 7 million pounds ($10.3M), but eventually left the club on a permanent basis for Wolfsburg in 2014 after failing to secure regular first-team action.

He quickly became a key figure with the Bundesliga outfit and earned himself a big-money move to City at the start of this season, where he has wasted no time making a name for himself.

De Bruyne feels his £55M price tag has been beneficial to him rather than a hindrance and thinks things could have panned out differently at Chelsea had he arrived on the back of mega-money transfer.

"It makes a huge difference [whether a club paid a lot of money for you]," De Bruyne told La Derniere Heure. "I would have played more at Chelsea had they paid as much for me as City did. That's the way things work in this business."