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That's not down to City's riches (well yes and no). The main reason for City's dominance is Pep. Pep is a genius manager, he's up there with any in the history of the game in terms of what he can do with a team in terms of peak level, consistency and all that. Klopp is also a great manager, but he's not on Peps level. City and Liverpool both had excellent depth, but Pep is just relentless in league play while Klopp just can't get a team to dominate quite the same.
Of course they only have Pep because of the money, but swap managers and keep the teams the same and Liverpool would've won more league titles during this period.
You can build to compete with them, Qatar or no qatar it is possible. You just have to be smart with purchases, and your manager needs to be a great manager. But it's unlikely you'll dominate a Pep side in league play, it'd be like somebody else dominating a Fergie side in league play... Just wouldn't happen. Individual seasons sure, but not over a longer period.
Not true at all - Liverpool had nowhere near the same depth. Look at last season - Jota, Salah and Mane played almost every game in the PL and CL as Firmino was injured. Only when they signed Diaz in January could they rotate and thus went on a winning run in both the league and CL. The other season they finished a point behind City their rotation was Origi and Shaqiri.
City had who? Jesus, Sterling, Foden, Mahrez, Bernardo, and probably one or two others hiding I've fotgotten - if you check their lineups from that season Pep very often rotates both his wide forwards between the weekend and midweek games. For me that was by far the biggest difference between Liverpool and City - playing 3 games a week effectively with no rotation catches up with you fast.