City spending isn’t responsible for us not winning a single top 6 fixture thus far, they aren’t responsible for losing against the bottom of the league team and drawing against 2nd to bottom, they aren’t responsible for our defence shitting the bed against Leicester and Everton.
If you look across the top leagues, Atletico have 54 pts after 21 games, Inter 50 after 22 games, Bayern have 48 after 20 games, so 53 after 23 is right about where a league leader is supposed to perform. They are on course for a 88 pts finish which is still a sizeable drop off from their record setting seasons, and in line with plenty of past PL winners. If the other teams decided to shit the collective bed and not give them a challenge then it’s not their fault.
We have only ourselves to blame for bottling the best chance we have for the title since Fergie left in such a pathetic fashion. Despite all the guffs about improvement in mentality, they will do no better next season, or the one after that, and blaming City’s spending won’t solve that issue.