Madrid and Bayern are not competing with doped to the grills team in their league. They dwarf their competition and have a guaranteed top 4 place always, on top of having first knack for every player in their respective leagues... especially Bayern.. It's not the same.
Then what do you say? Again, even if we refuse, does the league stop with the sportwashing? Do the oil teams simply disappear or at least stay at the number they are? Well... no. We refuse and where will that get us? Fighting for midtable scraps? I'm the fecking first man that will say "feck all of this, introduce a draft system and a price cap where every team is more or less equal on the transfer market and team building", but that's just a fantasy, isn't it? I'd love an NFL system, even if United spend years being shit and not winning anything, because at least I know that it's a fair system and United are not competing very well. In the PL you basically have cheating clubs that are winning and not cheating. All that really matters is whether you're going to be on the losing side or not.
The Liverpool example is the perfect example. Klopp is by far the best manager at the moment, IMO. He truly single-handedly dragged a club from the swamp it found itself stuck in and turned it into legitimate title challengers and won a CL with them. Something I never thought Liverpool would be capable to do given the sad state they were when he took the reigns over there. Truly, the closest thing to SAF in modern day football. And yet even he is struggling hard right now because it doesn't matter how good he is as a manager, there's only so much he can do with the financial doping juggernauts. City, having almost an equally good manager, will trump him almost every time. And now the great team he built is falling apart, aging, it needs a thorough replacement. This will take a while. You mention SAF having a cycle, but that's not really the case. We've been actively competing for titles since '91. We had a period in the early '00's where we tried to find our footing after the treble winning team, but we were still right up there. I don't believe we ever fell below top 3 during those years. Liverpool are instead falling off the boil completely. I don't think they'll even get top 4 this season. And it'll get a lot worse before it gets better. That's the difference
City didn't need a 'genius' manager like Pep to compete for the titles. They could do it just as well as decent managers like Pellegrini and Mancini. Why? Because they could spend money to their hearts content.
Let's face it, almost every even remotely quality player goes for 60-100 million nowadays. Was Darwin a stupid purchase? Most likely. But even so they need a whole revamp of not only their strikers, not only their midfield, but defense already. They don't have the money. If they brought some great midfielder, so what? You can stick Casemiro in their team and it isn't going to fix their problems. There are cracks all over and it will need a long time and money to fix. Time which Liverpool don't have and money that they don't have either.
