Take Leicester, they lost Kante but replaced him immediately with Ndidi. Southampton lost Lovren, replaced him with Van dyke and so on. We lost Carrick, replaced him with Huddlestone, Berbatov and Keane replaced with Frazier and Pav. Modric failed to replace with Moutinho. These are mistakes that have held us back even with the resource limits. Take recent events. Chelsea ruthlessly sacked Lampard who was doing better than Jose to bring in Tuchel to stop their slide. We persisted with Jose continued the decline before sacking him a week before a cup final and installing a novice. So instead of having a decent coached team to play city, we had a team lacking confidence with a coach that was totally not prepared for the challenge he faced. What astonished me is that the same people that derided the last manager for failing to win the Champions League final with a far weaker squad are now saying "well it's city what did we expect?" There were reasons for us losing the final and it was more than it just being City. That squad is better than the account that it gave itself in the final and over much of this season. But we were not decisive about the direction of travel with Jose until too late.