The key issue isn't competitiveness though. It's sporting. If a team is dominant for a long time based on sporting merit, eg Liverpool in the 80s, United in the 90s, you have to accept it and the growth of a club that goes with it. As with both of those examples, sport will always see them fall away and need to rebuild while a new team or teams take their place. Man City, have absolutely no sporting merit. They are an attempt to westernise and make palatable, a state in the middle east. They are a fantastic team, but poor for the sport. In the same way great clubs like Barcelona and Real were sportingly poor in the way money was handled in Spain, and quite open to criticism on those points. We can stand back and comment on it being a sign of the times, and each club having dubious owners and so on, but City are doing something on a scale that no club in history has ever done, and since 99.9% of clubs in the world simply can't match it, the inevitable result is 90+ seasons becoming routine and absurd 20 game winning runs. They're an excellent team, best in the league by far, but a sporting catastrophe in the true sense of the word sport.