Suffer, really? You are coming on a City forum and talking to City fans about suffering. You either are of a certain age, live another part of the country or world or have never spoken to a City fan before. We'll still be here through the bad times and the worse, the good times and the great and the bad times again!!! Because we have already gone through our trough, some even our last peak before this latest peak.
In regards to your comment about needing success to maintain current levels. Please expand, what do you mean by this? We have an academy which is about to explode like you have never seen! We have money that even FFP is scared of during round it to 2 years of pandemic! We have one of the youngest squads being assembled. We have a core of British players and a style which has changed to course of British football let alone Man Citys! I haven't even gone into the higher level structure which City have, now I'm talking ownership level. We are one of the best run clubs in world football, something which you will never hear any main stream media come out and say but in a quiet room with high profile people, if you were a fly on a wall...
You are comparing us to a club that built a stadium well over budget and only appears to be there as a centre for all things entertainment and spurs are part of that entertainment. A club that sacked a manager pretty much on the eve of a final because if they did win that match how could they possibly get rid of him. So silverware isn't a priority. A club with no identity or vision for the future, no academy prospects that are coming through into the first team (unless I am mistaken) no football philosophy which has been implement into the roots and foundations like here which is what Pep has achieved.
So I'll politely disagree and say you're full of shit, and that's not arrogance, you just don't have any substance to your claim.