Pep would fail faster than most to be honest. He inherited a strong City team and then had some mega windows to appease him - Stones, Gundogan, Jesus, Sane, Bravo, Nolito all in the first, then had a tantrum that he was miles off Conte's Chelsea so they bought him an entire new defensive unit (Laporte, Mendy, Walker, Ederson, Danilo) AND Bernardo Silva in the second. That not even all their transfers, it's just the bigger ones. Can you even imagine what that spending looks like in today's market? Buying 12 first team players in 2 years?
I do think we should be seeing better on the pitch but then I also think the fan base are ignoring the injury crisis to a degree whilst also somewhat living in cuckoo land. I've seen posters saying ETH should sell Rashford, Bruno and Case...I mean that isn't being sanctioned. No one ever really applies any context on here anymore, we got a young promising striker instead of a proven one, bought a keeper who will make passing errors, bought a No10/wide attacker and are trying to move him to 8. There's a lot to unpick and there are now at least 3-4 other teams who can spend in the same region as us, just shoving money at the problem won't work. It's about having a plan, building a team whilst cycling out the older heads and then being in a position to compete.
