Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
That doesn't seem right and a bit of a contradiction. It's not that simple. If money is the most important factor, how comes the smaller teams with a lot less than us can beat us?
How come City lost away to Sunderland and Swansea? It's pretty simple. In one off games the best team doesn't always win. Over the course of a season though we finished above everyone bar the who Manchester sides who can both outspend us and one (arguably both) have better managers.

It takes a combination of money and a good manager
Agreed. Unfortunately City have both. But they only have a good manager because of their money of course.

We've been poor for seven years now.
I'm not sure finishing in the top 4 every single year is 'poor'. But there are glaring weaknesses which repeat year on year with wearying regularity and some of Wenger's decisions, it has to be said, are baffling. Given that Wenger has kept us up there the lack of trophies is damning. A new manager might do better but I don't think many managers could have lost their two best midfielders and still finished 3rd with more points than last season. And changing the manager won't change the board so I'm not sure how much would change apart from a potentially worse manager.