The rags success come in a less competitive era, there's no doubt, especially domestically. You aren't even finishing top 2 these days with the amount of points they won it with in some seasons.
United could buy their rivals best players. They could pay 30m for a defender in 2001, that was obscene money then. As soon as a team come along like Chelsea that could match them financially, we saw united being unable to dominate anymore and they completely went downhill once half dozen teams could spend money.
We are dominating in an era where half the league can drop big money on players. Just look how much the rags, arsenal, chelsea, Liverpool etc have spent on players too. That's the sign we are a great team, these teams can and do buy players for over 50 of 60 mil.
And this is the thing, united fans are shithouses and unable to admit they dominated when they could outspend everyone and there wasnt much stiff competition. City fans are under no illusions money put us in position to get success, but it's not guaranteed success when at least half a dozen teams can spend the same amount on a player that we can
As much as I hate the dippers too, I think their team that were competitive with us for a few seasons would have absolutely dicked Piss Can's united and dominated that area, and we are even better.