Before anyone starts downvoting, I come in peace.
The entire English football media today is based around extorting United for clicks and attention. In the last decade of United pretty much dwindling with very little trophy success, I’ve heard Gary Neville go on and on about United. So much so that I’ve heard him(and some other English pundits) say that it would be best for English football for United to return back to trophy success - why exactly?
I’m not English so maybe that’s why I don’t understand it but why is it so hard for the English media to accept that United existing without trophy success is not some atomic bomb to English football?
Eras come and go: Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Everton, Arsenal, Nottingham Forrest. United or any other club should not be exempt from what I perceive to be the natural law of the English game.
Nothing. United just begin to fall off in terms of revenue, reputation and fan base, with City doing the opposite. Clubs previously considered big fall all the time. Leeds went from CL semis to relegation in a few years. Chelsea went from champions to being mid table a few years back and haven’t had consistent form for a while now.
Some clubs can make themselves intractable and consistently top of the tables if they have sufficient resources and/or shrewd long term operations. That’s why City can do what no PL club, even United managed to do and create a clear step up between themselves and everyone else. If clubs like Brighton continue to be run brilliantly it’ll be them as a consistent big club next.
As United slowly fall out of touch with the legacy SAF built, and the players and fans he endeared himself to become older and new football fans who never saw the great United teams become more of a majority, United will lose their grip.
City “can do what no other PL club can” because they have had the benefit of financial doping for the past 15 years.