Ever? Yes, of course they can be caught.
Just as Liverpool were about to embark on their period of domination through the 1970s and 80s, City had won the same number of trophies as them in the first 80-odd years of both clubs.
By 1972…
City: 2 league titles, 4 FA Cups, 1 League Cup, 3 Charity Shields, 1 European Cup Winners’ Cup - 11 trophies
Liverpool: 7 league titles, 1 FA Cup, 3 Charity Shields - 11 trophies
From 1972 to 1992, Liverpool had two decades where they won 36 trophies, where City won 1 trophy.
Look at United before they went on their period of domination through the 1990s to the 2010s, they’d won about the same number of trophies as Aston Villa (United 23 trophies by 1989 and Villa 20 trophies by 1989, with both having won 7 league titles and 1 European Cup). Then United won 43 trophies from 1990-2017 in a period where Villa won 2 trophies.
City are currently having our period of domination. In the last eleven years we’ve won 17 trophies. Give us two full decades of domination like Liverpool had and we’ll be touching around 30 trophies between 2011 and 2031, and give us nearly three decades like United had and we’ll be up there touching 40 trophies between 2011 and 2038. We’ll be right up there with the top numbers of trophy winners in this country.
In another 50 years’ time, clubs like Liverpool and United could be stale old clubs who had successful periods of domination well in the past. City could too. It could be Leeds and West Ham that are the big clubs by then, neither been traditional regular trophy winners but they both have huge potential to be so.
