Ok i get what you say totally. My point being, the signs were there. We won a poor league, were a fuckin disgrace in the fa cup final.
But the signs were creeping in.
In my opinion
All the older players were obviously starting to show that they were coming to the end of their time with us by the end of the 2023-24 season. But it’s not like we just hung up our coat, put our slippers on and got the pipe out.
We signed Gvardiol and tried to sign Bellingham and Rice, and then Wirtz, but they didn’t want to play for this club. We have made it known we want to sign Livramento, but again, he doesn’t want to sign for this club. We
are identifying top targets each Summer, but we can’t
make them sign for us if they don’t want to.
We aren’t doing anything different from when we tried to sign Yaya, DSilva, Agüero, De Bruyne and Mahrez etc. the only difference is, they
did want to play for this club.
Being a top football club and a great football team is as much down to pure chance that we approach the right player at the right time who wants to play for us, as it is on missing out on them.
It’s like the next manager… people say Pep’s time is up, but who’s to say that Iraola or Nagelsmann would say yes to City? Maybe neither of them would want to work for this club? Maybe Kompany would say yes, but who’s to say that his poor defensive tactics wouldn’t see him hounded out of the club by impatient fans?
I think we’ve become a bit unrealistic and too impatient as a set of fans.