I just wonder, GDM, from whom would this apology come from?
If it came from the club itself, I would find it to be insincere and would characterize it as a frivolous publicity stunt.
If it could somehow come from their 1.3 billion fan base, I would find it to be insincere and would find it to be a frivolous social media stunt.
They, collectively, could never do it. They revelled in it, by and large, I doubt they were embarrassed by it and deep inside ALL of those vermin they know it's really all they have left that gets under our collective skin. Sure, there's the CL thing that they still can use, but at this point in time we and they both know that won't be there forever.
I implore you to stay with your two original conclusions 1) they are WANK and 2) in their own self-proclaimed massivity they have tilted the scales of objective reality they're SMALL-TIME and the fact that we find them 8th in the premier league is just a nuisance to us, Manchester City, no more so than Crystal Palace or Brighton.