I disagree, we can win the league as we could still attract top players, the trick is to have a group of players that complement each other you don't have to have the most money to do that.
As for Man U, they had it won before they inexplicably collapsed, never seen that before under Ferguson but I don't think the group of players they have is avergae these days, a few years back they'd have won this title hands down, but they had better players in those days.
This defeatist atttidue pretty much goes through the whole club, all we hear is excuses about how other clubs have got more monet etc etc, if you believe you've lost before the game has started you have. It's as if we don't think we can win so we don't even really try, all we do is do enough for getting 3rd/4th.