what differentiates having a winning mentality and winning trophies, in light of the above? because to me it just sounds like you're using the two interchangeably
do Chelsea have a winning mentality?
they won the league last season, they're the current champions of England - if the Champions of England don't have a winning mentality who does? if they do, why are they 5th getting beat at home to a Spurs team that is so far away from having a winning mentality the idea that they do is laughable? did they get a winning mentality but lost it in the celebrations?
do City have a winning mentality? all they have won under Guardiola so far is the league cup, we've already established that winning one trophy, especially the league cup, doesn't give you a winning mentality and we know that you can't have a winning mentality until you've won something (just not a cup competition, or a league if you're Chelsea or Leicester) so when can we say they have a winning mentality? once they've won the league? Once they've won the league twice on the spin? when?
do Arsenal have a winning mentality? 3 cups in 4 years coming in to this season, two of them coming when they were underdogs, the greatest FA Cup record of them all, id certainly like to win 3 FA Cups in 4 years - if we won 3 FA Cups in 4 years would we then have that winning mentality? would the type of winning mentality that this current Arsenal team display be the missing ingredient that takes us up a level or two, like it has them?
Liverpool - no trophies in a long old while but have a good record against the big teams and do well once they have fallen behind, do they have it?
Man United, they won 3 trophies last season etc etc
do people really think any of those sides have a better mentality than us? that if you somehow transplanted that one thing from their players/coaches mindset that we so obviously lack that we'd see us jump up a level or two? is mentality really what is holding this team back? Are we even being held back? are we not just a very good team competing with other very good teams for a limited number of trophies?
Can we even as a club be expected to be a dominating force? what happens in a hypothetical scenario where we win the league/cup whatever and then City and United go out blow their huge piles of money on the best players around and it all falls in to place and they over take us? will it be because we lacked the mentality to repeat the achievement or would it be because we're just up against clubs with far too much money to fall behind for too long
if Leicester and Chelsea don't have a winning mentality, or Arsenal and whoever else then what the hell is it that you're actually expecting?